A Concise History of Science in India c8.s9.13

c8.s9.13

These hospitals must have been organized according to the same principles as those of the other Islamic dominions which, according to Cyril Elgood,g were as models of the European hospitals. But in the medieval Indian hospitals generally the Hakims and the Vaids worked side by side as it is obvious from the description of the hospital which was founded by a Khayr Andish Khan given in his *Khayrut-Tajarib*.h Abul-Fazl has given the names of 39 Hakims of his time in his '*Ain*. But they were only those who were in the service of the court at Delhi. In the whole country the number of the Hakims who either served in the various hospitals or carried on private practice in the various parts of India, during the Mughal rule, must have been several thousands. The main centres of their medical activities were Lahore, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Murshidabad, Hyderabad, Madras and other important towns. In many of these centres there were not only well-equipped *Unani* hospitals, but also *Tibb Mādrasas*.