The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.194

c8.194

therein evidence guaranteeing that the Vedic authors had observed and distinguished the phases of confinement and the corresponding accidents; this, however, does not prove the existence of an advanced obstetrics. Hence once again we find a pathological fact in the Veda, but only in a stage purely rudimentary, but which shall be later taken up with considerable progress in classical medicine, because Indian obstetrics, specially that of Suśruta, is one of the most complete and one of the most audacious of antiquity.