Hindu Medicine c5.s3.49

Language: English

c5.s3.49

To turn now to the third chapter: here Zimmer intended to start with a discussion of Hindu materia medica, which as “the foundation of countless prescriptions, forms the most impressive bulk of India’s therapeutical wisdom.”²⁴ Anyone who is not a trained botanist or pharmacologist, and a specialist in the subtropical flora, will find it hard to understand the complex prescriptions that are given. Even for Hindu experts it is extremely

Previous: c5.s3.48
Next: c5.s3.50
Up: c5.s3