The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s1.4

c7.s1.4

But did the water used in the big bath have any medicinal properties? Nothing allows us to suppose so. If the big bath were the only hydrotherapic installation favoured in the town, one could think so. But the individual installations could not have been uniquely destined for cures; they were put up for daily use. We can, therefore, conclude that in all likelihood, the ruins of Mohen-jo-daro attest, from the 3rd millennium B.C., to the existence of personal and urban hygiene in India.