The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c4.13

c4.13

In the present work, written in France and outside the domain of practical Ayurvedic medicine, we have only tried to examine its doctrinal bases, examine the nature and foundations of its theories. They have appeared to us to be highly respectable because of the spirit of rational comprehension of vital and pathological phenomena they reveal. Upto now, after studying the ancient medical systems, we have found proofs of an original rational effort only among the Greeks and the Chinese (not counting the medical systems which are only derived from those of Greece and China)—an effort analogous to that of India, which is shown in the Ayurveda.