The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.79

c15.79

The general concordance is due to the principle itself of the grouping of symptoms having the value of prognostic in these lists, wherein they are detached from the concomitant signs, from the morbid atmosphere and from general conditions, which alone could give them fully significant value. The analogy between the Accadian manual and the special portions devoted to the same subject in the Indian manuals here is the same as is the case with this Accadian book and the Hippocratic manuals specialising like the former in the enunciation of prognostics, particularly the *Prénotions de Cos*.