Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.67

c8.67

The great importance of the Bower MS for the history of Indian Medicine lies in the fact that it has certainly proved the existence of the Indian Medicine already in the 4-5th century A. D. and thereby has removed all doubts about the faithfulness of Arabic accounts. The doctrine of Tridoṣa, of digestion, of the influence of seasons, the forms of medicinal substances, the names of diseases, appear here essentially the same as those in the works hitherto mentioned and many long recipes of the Bower MS recur word by word in the medical Saṃhitās. Quicksilver, opium as well as small pox do not appear herein.