Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c5.s1.1

c5.s1.1

1. It will naturally be expected that some information should be given regarding the chronology of the works and their authors mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Unfortunately there still exists very great incertitude with respect to their absolute, and to some extent even to their relative, dates. On a future occasion I hope to enter more fully into the discussion of the chronological question: for our present purpose the following statement will suffice.