The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c14.18

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¹ I, 170. Modern authors have seldom noticed this fact. Many have sought to combat it. However Th. Gomperz has remarked that their objections only prove that probably Herodotos may have been mistaken, but it is unlikely that the Greeks had, without any motive, given a foreign origin to one of their great men. (*Les penseurs de la Gréce*, French trans., p. 76, f.n. 2).