The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.76

c15.76

As a whole, the doctrine is the same as that of Caraka and of Bhela. The account of Bhela looks less orderly and that of Suśruta as the best-arranged. It is also Suśruta who most often mixes up the enumerations of prognostic with general considerations regarding morbid causes. It seems that with him, traditional learning, in part divinatory and in part resulting from real medical experience, and which Bhela and Caraka have only half adapted in the theoretical medicine of scientific import, has tended to be integrated more closely into this medicine.