The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.55
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.55
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Finally, the twelfth chapter, after certain indications of the same type as in the preceding one, studies the forebodings obtained by the doctor by observing the messenger come to fetch him for the patient or of the presages encountered by the doctor on the way to the patient's house and on entering that house. It terminates in a recapitulation of the entire *indriyasthāna* and in new indications concerning the necessity of hiding the fatal prognostic as also the favourable signs.