The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c14.34
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c14.34
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c14.34
Badly informed of the social life and of the state of science at Babylon, Herodotos' knowledge of farther India is, generally speaking, still worse. This leads to the consequence that, in the Greek world of Asia, one was not generally and regularly well-informed on all that touched the peoples of the Persian empire. It does not follow in the least that it was impossible to have occasionally precise information concerning the ideas of their peoples.