Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.1

c8.1

§ 1. Modern Works :— Although, thanks to the discovery of the Central Asiatic manuscripts and Hoernle's splendid work on them, (§ 13) medicine can now be regarded as the oldest of Indian sciences and has been proved to be the science in which the Indians specialized first, yet in view of its continued existence upto the present time and in view of its continual development, it would be more to the purpose from the point of view of method, to begin a review of Sanskrit medical literature with a short reference to the modern works and then go back successively to the older works and finally to the earliest ones.