Hindu Medicine c4.8

c4.8

able to continue the work in Zimmer’s style and manner, so distinctly individual in the treatment of Hindu medicine, as in everything else he ever wrote. For a long time we pondered over the feasibility of adding from Zimmer’s original manuscript and from his other writings a collection of miscellaneous statements concerning medical theory and practice. But these casual remarks were difficult to group and did not form a unity. Taken by themselves they did not convey a clear picture of his insight into those aspects of Hindu medicine which are not covered in his last writing. Moreover, the impressiveness of the finished lectures seemed to be diminished rather than enhanced by such a medley of disjointed aphorisms.