Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.2
Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.2
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c20.2
HIPPOCRATES, the founder of Greek medicine, was unacquainted with anatomy and physiology. His ignorance was due to the superstitious respect which the Greeks paid to their dead.²⁹ But the fathers of Hindu medicine were remarkably accurate in some of their observations and descriptions.