The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.24

c15.24

It can thus be seen that studied in isolation and not completed by data as that of Prognostics, Prénotions de Cos will lead to such gross errors in prognostics, under which no medical practice could survive. They suppose, therefore, and the persistent reputation of the Accadian tradition across entire Mesopotamia equally supposes the existence of a complement of teaching such as that of the Prognostics, preserved for us by the Hippocratic Collection, whereas the chance discovery of cuneiform tablets has not yielded us so far, for Mesopotamia, anything equivalent.