The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.25

c15.25

It is also to be observed that the collections of the lists of symptoms which could not have, in themselves, sufficed as medical manuals, do not constitute a very natural mode for the fixation of the medical tradition and this can lead one to think that this mode having been habitual in Mesopotamia, it is by means of the Mesopotamian example that it got established among the Greeks, leading among them to compilations like Prénotions de Cos.