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The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c14.23

The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c14.23

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c14.23

² Suidas, under the word dimokhydis, says that his father had been the priest of Asklepios at Cnida and Jamblique makes a Pythagorean of him (Vie de Pytha., 357), cf. A. Gotze, “Persische Weisheit in Griechischem Gewande”, in Zeit. fur Ind. und. Ir., p. 97, who rightly notes the importance of the presence of three doctors in India for the history of medical communications between Iran and the Hellenic world.