The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.33
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.33
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¹ The idea of a similar crossing of thick vessels in the body is found in the Hippocratic collection (*On the Nature of Man*, 11, where several "veins" forming the third pair of the system described, go from the temples to the lungs, the one from the right side coming to the left side and vice versa).