The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.7
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.7
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¹ Rivaud thinks that it refers here to the pathogeny of pulmonary congestions and to bronchitis, but the air which shuts itself in the diaphragmatic region could not determine similar affections. It refers to the air retained in the centre of the body and which provokes the diseases that follow, the latter not being of the respiratory type.