The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c4.14

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Thus we observe that Ayurveda is definitely in the front rank of the scientific realisations of ancient time, when its doctrines were constituted. But it is for the Indian practitioners of today, for Biologists, for Pharmocologists, for Dieteticians, to find out the practical results which can be obtained from the practice of Ayurveda, whose theories and accumulated treasure of observations are remarkable but whose power of investigation has been by-passed by present-day research, always going ahead.