The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c4.7
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c4.7
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Certain persons think that it is useful, even necessary, while waiting for a more complete propagation of modern universal medicine, which India, besides, possesses and to whose progress its research-workers are contributing and which alone should be spread all over and installed over its entire territory. While waiting for this propagation and only for this propagation, Ayurvedic medicine must be encouraged. But in that case it must be correctly practised by the Ayurvedic practitioners, with verified competence, instead of being, sometimes, practised at the hands of healers who use it ill and render it inefficacious or dangerous.