The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c6.39
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c6.39
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¹ At the time of the surgical treatment of an insect or a reptile lodged in the skull of a patient. This incident forms the subject matter of popular Indian folklore. According to the Tamil sources the master is Agattiyar (Agastya) and the pupil lives at Teraiyar (cf., M. S. Purnalingam Pillai, Tamil Literature, Mannirpalam, 1930, p. 29 and Bull. de la soc. franc. d’hist. de la méd., janv.-fev., 1934, p. 39). For a similar story in modern Hindustani: Garcin de Tassy, Bagh o Bahar, Paris, 1878, p. 44.