The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c6.139
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c6.139
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Both of them being based on the representation, which the "physiologists" made of the Universe, the medical theories of Greece and India make a pair, not only because historically speaking, they have had an equal diffusion in two comparable worlds, but also because they are related to analogous speculations, because their organic constitution is similar and they are scientific in the same sense, inasmuch as they are efforts at a purely natural explanation of vital, normal and pathological phenomena.