The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels
Origins of Āyurvedic doctrine in Vedic texts; tridoṣa, vāyu, disease names; comparison with Greek and Iranian medicine. French original 1949.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Jean Filliozat
- Extent
- 1,392 passages, 122,005 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · English tr. by Dev Raj Chanana, Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal 1964; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash… · In copyright (Jean Filliozat †1982); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 11 parts
- c2 Table of Contents — 27 parts
- c3 Translator's Note — 8 parts
- c4 Preface for the English Version — 20 parts
- c5 Introduction — 15 parts
- c6 Chapter One: Classical Indian Medicine: The Āyurveda — 139 parts
- c7 Chapter Two: Pre-Aryan and Indo-Aryan Data on Medicine — 2 parts
- c8 Chapter Three: The Data of the Vedic Samhitas on Pathology — 194 parts
- c9 Chapter Four: The Data of the Vedic Saṃhitās Concerning Anatomy — 114 parts
- c10 Chapter V: The Data of the Vedic Samhitas on Physiology — 71 parts
- c11 Chapter VI: Veda and Āyurveda — 35 parts
- c12 Chapter Seven: The Ayurvedic Theory of the Wind and Greek Pneumatism — 7 parts
- c13 Chapter Eight: The Timaeus of Plato and Indian Medicine — 46 parts
- c14 Chapter Nine: Communications Between Greece and India Before Alexander — 65 parts
- c15 Appendix: Accadian, Greek and Indian Medical Prognostics — 101 parts
- c16 Bibliography — 84 parts
- c17 Index — 37 parts
- c18 Errata — 5 parts