Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c18.6

c18.6

(1) The Hindus have had hospitals and dispensaries since at least the third century B.C. Asoka the Great was an educator and propagandist. Through his Rock Inscriptions he popularized, among other things, some of the more common medical recipes for the treatment of both men and animals. (The first Christian hospital was built in the fourth century A.D. under Constantine.)