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Hindu Medicine c4.5

Hindu Medicine c4.5

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c4.5

and from the manuscript of the papers as they were read. Yet it turned out that the notes did not cover more than brief sketches of problems to be dealt with. Moreover, Zimmer had not only enlarged on the content of the lectures of 1940; he had also decided to reorganize his material. No outline of the new arrangement was preserved. It would appear from one of his letters that at the end of the second chapter he planned to speak about the relation between Hindu medicine and Greek medicine.² Otherwise it remains unclear how he intended to proceed; whether sections taken out of the first two chapters were to be integrated into the later context, and if so, where they were to be inserted; how the missing parts of the second and third chapters were to be composed. Every attempt to bring out the book as its author had envisaged it had therefore to be abandoned.