Hindu Medicine c6.1

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Hindu medicine attracted the attention of Western scholars at an early period of Indic studies. Prior to J. F. Royle’s *Essay on the Antiquity of Hindoo Medicine*, London 1837, which was the first book on Hindu medical wisdom published in Europe,¹ H. H. Wilson, the great pioneer of Sanskrit philology, succeeding W. Jones and H. T. Colebrooke, introduced Hindu medicine to the forum of Western science through an essay “On the Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Hindus” in 1823.² During the intervening century Western and Hindu scholars, in turn, edited and translated the main texts of Hindu medical tradition.