The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.91

c15.91

Thus, on the Indian side, these concordances show themselves first of all in a period quite near that during which on their side the Hippocratic texts have concordances with Accadian prognostics and chiefly during that later period when the Greek manuals on the veterinary art in their turn present some. If the influence of the Mesopotamian tradition, and not chance, is the cause of all these concordances, then this influence must have been exercised in the East and West during the last period of its existence.