Hindu Medicine c4.10

c4.10

yet antiquated; it is such an incredibly decent and clean piece of work that you get discouraged whenever you try to deal anew with the details and to concentrate on them. But I believe nobody has ever tried to represent the atmosphere as such and what it means for a more correct understanding of the details.”³ Such a representation was what he aimed at. And although, as he wrote me in 1942, he was aware of shortcomings in his own work, he was convinced that in the main he had succeeded. Indeed the peculiar flair of Hindu medicine, its largely mythical and allegorical ingredients, are here grasped and made explicit by one who was particularly gifted for bringing to life the implications of myth and allegory.⁴