Hindu Medicine c6.5

c6.5

The present summary, at once condensing and enlarging the contents of three lectures presented to medical students and a general audience at the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, cannot pretend to vie in any respect with Jolly's thoroughly detailed description. In presenting characteristic elements of Hindu medical tradition through selections from its classics, the present work offers an approach to the understanding of the aims and ideals of Hindu medicine, its characteristics, and its possible value for stimulating and enlarging the views of today's medicine. Since the latter is, after all, confronted with the same questions as the physicians and sages of ancient and mediaeval India, modern medicine may well gain a fresh impulse and insight through reviewing the venerable history of the Hindu discipline.⁶