The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.78

c15.78

manual appears as similar but typologically more archaic, less developed as regards the progress of empirical knowledge and of the collection of the facts of experience, for scientific knowledge and the comprehension of acquired experience. The theoretical Indian classifications of morbid manifestations and Indian attempts at a rational explanation of certain signs, viz., the production of dreams of bad augury by organic perturbations in the canals of the organ of thought, do not have any equivalent in the Accadian manual. But the rest of the teaching has, with this manual, both a general concordance and particular similarities.