Hindu Medicine
Atharvavedic magic medicine, the physician's ideal, Caraka and Suśruta, humoral theory, embryology, prognostics, ethics; long translated extracts.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Henry R. Zimmer
- Extent
- 861 passages, 53,176 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1948, ed. Ludwig Edelstein; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite;… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Henry R. Zimmer †1943)
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 10 parts
- c2 Hindu Medicine — 5 parts
- c3 The Hideyo Noguchi Lectureship — 12 parts
- c4 Editor's Foreword — 17 parts
- c5 Editor's Preface — 3 parts
- c6 Introduction — 4 parts
- c7 I. Medical Tradition and the Hindu Physician — 315 parts
- c8 II. The Human Body: Its Forces and Resources — 239 parts
- c9 Notes to Introduction — 5 parts
- c10 Notes to Chapter I — 24 parts
- c11 Notes to Chapter II — 15 parts
- c12 Index of Passages — 8 parts
- c13 Index to Names — 20 parts