Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c4.3

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Dr. Jolly's *Medizin* forms part of the series of the *Encyclopaedia of Indo-Aryan Research* (Vol. 3, part 10) founded by Dr. Bühler and continued by Dr. Kielhorn. The entire series was a solid contribution to the study and research of the various branches of ancient Indian learning and *Medizin* was no exception to the same. The book is a model of scientific study. Even though small in size, it is full of information so laboriously and skilfully compiled together, taking into account the entire literature on Medicine from the Vedas down to the Bhāvaprakāśa. It is a great compliment to the western scholarship that a Sanskrit scholar without any special knowledge of the medical science should produce such an authoritative and solid work on a practical science like the Āyurveda. No work of this nature has, so far as I know, been published in any Indian language. I firmly believe that this work will really prove very helpful for conducting research work in Āyurveda. There is much in western scholarship which we have still to learn. A historical approach as has been made in writing this book is a dire necessity for Āyurvedic research work—