The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.44

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c15.44

The fifth chapter studies the premonitory symptoms of death in diseases of various types, the objective ones observed by the doctor and the subjective ones reported by the patient. These latter consist chiefly of dreams, only a part thereof being considered as premonitory ones and a rational theory having been elaborated to explain, by means of the influence of the organic elements of trouble on the perceptions, the troubles of premonitory value of some of them.¹

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