The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.182

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¹ Oldenberg, although doubtful, translates "diarrhoea" (*Rél. du Veda*, p. 425) which cannot be defended in the presence of the passage of the *Ṛgveda*, which Oldenberg had before him when he made the translation. In the passage in question, it could also refer to something else than a disease (cf., Bloomfield, *Hymns*, 327; V. Henry, *Manuel védique*, index which proposes "panic, rout").