A note on ancient Indian medicine.
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This paper entails a fresh look at three works on ancient Indian medicine: Ancient Indian Medicine. by P. Kutumbiah (Calcutta: Orient Longmans. Ltd .. 1962); Hindu Medicine. by Henry R. Zimmer, edited with a foreword and preface by Ludwig Edelstein (Baltimore. The Johns Hopkins Press. 1948); and The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels, by Jean Filliozat, translated into English from the French by Dev Raj Chanana (Delhi: Munshiram ManoharIal. 1964).1 These books represent perhaps the best known and the most /
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Bulletin of the Indian Institute of History of Medicine
دوره 8 1-4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1978