[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901) › c8.76 # Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.76 Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.76 - **Language:** English ### [c8.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c8.76) Caland has contributed to the general knowledge by the treatment and explanation of the Kauśika sūtra in his important work on \*Altindisches Zauberritual\*³, an interesting but nonetheless difficult book and has compared the Indian folk-medicine with similar ideas and manners of the North American Indians, the old Romans and Germans and other peoples. These often surprising parallels do not rouse any high opinion about the Vedic medicine. The Kauśika sūtra resembles the spell-books of the North American Indians so much so that one may easily mistake one for the other. The utterances and invocations of the Atharvans are, however, to be considered as the base of the later medical science⁴. Winternitz also came to the conclusion in a short but comprehensive presentation of the ancient Indian folk-medicine that in India, as elsewhere, the physician is the direct descendent of the sorcerer and magician⁵. Very early a French physician, Dr. P. Cordier, has carefully collected and discussed the medical passages in the Rgveda, Atharvaveda as well as in the Upaniṣads, epics and law-books⁶. - [Previous: c8.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c8.75) - [Next: c8.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c8.77) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauśikasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausika) — Kauśika, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c8.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c8.76) · Pramāṇa