Hindu Medicine c6.2
Hindu Medicine c6.2
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c6.2
The earliest specimens of Indian medicine, contained in the hymns of the Atharva-Veda, are available in W. D. Whitney’s translation;³ the three classic encyclopedias of medical wisdom of the era A. D., viz. Caraka, Suśruta and Vāgbhaṭa, have also been translated.⁴ Besides the contributions of A. F. R. Hoernle, P. Cordier, M. Bloomfield and others on the history of Hindu medicine, there is the outstanding monograph by Julius Jolly, *Indische Medizin*,⁵ which treats with equal mastery both the philological and the medical aspects of