The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.24

c13.24

The fevers enumerated by Plato, while finishing his exposition concerning the diseases of the body, are well known in India, not only to doctors, but even to the authors of the magical conjurations of the *Atharvaveda*.³ In any case their knowledge is necessary in all those countries where they occur within the eastern basin of the Mediterranean as also in India.