Hindu Medicine c7.170

c7.170

The primitive, old-fashioned way of dealing one at a time with diseases. drugs and herbs, in separate monographs, exhausting the matter under every aspect, is here abandoned to a large extent. The subject-matter is split up: pathology and therapy are more strictly subdivided and treated under separate headings. An identical subdivision is actually used by Caraka; but due to his broader, more leisurely and conservative style, this organization of material is not insisted upon to the same extent and is not adhered to strictly in practice. In the main sections of Suśruta’s text it is carried through most rigidly.¹¹