The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c9.85

c9.85

From all these facts it follows that the anatomy of the classical texts of medicine is, in so far as the notions on the various canals and vessels of the body are concerned, a direct descendant of the Veda. It is equally from a Vedic conception in preserving the corresponding Vedic name that classical medicine has elaborated one of its most characteristic notions of anatomy, that of the vulnerable points or *marman*.