The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c11.27

c11.27

Under these conditions and although we do not possess the real medical texts of the period which elapsed between the *Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa* and Kātyāyana, we have to place in this period the definitive formation of the general doctrine of the pathology of Āyurveda which we have later found to be common to all the great manuals of classical period.