The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.88
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.88
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It should therefore be admitted that there is no common nosological nomenclature pertaining to the Veda and the Avesta, except in so far as it concerns a few skin-diseases and this leads us to think that in the Indo-Iranian period there was no fixed nosology which the Aryans could have brought with them into India. The anatomical terms common to the Vedic and the Avestan are the names of the organs or of various parts of the body related to ordinary general knowledge.