Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c17.95

c17.95

*p.28.§ 17*—Works of some authors deserve special mention :- *Hindu Medicine* by Dr. H. R. Zimmer, John Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1948. The book is divided into two chapters : (i) Medical tradition and the Hindu Physician (ii) The Human body : Its forces and resources. *La Doctrine Classique de la Medecine Indienne : Ses origines et ses paralleles Grecs* (The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine : Its origins and Greek Parallels) by Dr. Jean Filliozat, pp. 230, Paris, 1949. It makes a critical and historical survey of the Indian Medical science with special reference to Vedic and Greek Medicine, as will be seen from the titles of its chapters given below :- (i) The classical Indian medicine : The Ayurveda (ii) Pre-Aryan and Indo-Iranian medical data (iii) Material from the Vedic Samhitas on pathology (iv) Material from the Vedic Samhitas on Physiology (v) Veda and Ayurveda (vi) The Ayurvedic theory of wind and the Greek Pneumatism (vii) The Timèe of Plato and the Indian Medicine (viii) Communications between Greece and India before Alexander. *Etude de Démonologie indienne : Le Kumāratantra de Rāvaṇa et les textes paralleles indiens, tibetains, chinois, cambodgien et Arabe* (Study of Indian Demonology : The Kumāratantra of Rāvaṇa and the Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, Cambodian and Arabic parallel texts ) by the same author, Paris, 1937. The book has the following chapters:—(i) The Kumāratantra and its medical parallels, (ii) Non-medical parallel Sanskrit documents (iii) Divers Indian Documents (iv) Documents foreign to India (v) The character and the divers aspects of the demon Rāvaṇa. Dr. Filliozat has also written *Fragments de textes Koutcheens de médecine et magic*, Paris, 1948; *Nāgārjuna et Agastya, médecins, chimistes et sorciers*, Bruxelles, 1938. Dr. E. Benveniste has written *La doctrine medicale des Indo-Européens*. *Revue de l'Histoire der Religions*, tome cxxx, 1945, pp. 1-12. Important contributions to the study of the different aspects of Indian Medicine have also been made by other French scholars. Sections dealing with Indian medical literature are found in M. Winternitz, *Geschichte der indischen Litteratur* III, Leipzig, 1922, pp. 541-54; A. B. Keith, *History of the Sanskrit Literature*, London, 1928, pp. 505-15. The latter has the following chapters:—(i) The development of Indian Medicine (ii) The older Samhitas (iii) The medical tracts in the Bower MS (iv) Later medical works (v) Greece and Indian Medicine.