The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.13

c15.13

The fifth part, which has reached us in an extremely incomplete state, deals with women and young children, specially with the prognostics concerning the sex of a child to be born and his chances of life. It also discusses the conditions of delivery and the sentiments to be shown in future by the child to his mother; this rather belongs to divination than medicine.