Hindu Medicine c7.241
Hindu Medicine c7.241
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c7.241
Later Buddhist sources show how these institutions of social medicine, sponsored by the king for the welfare of the people, were still flourishing, for instance, in Ceylon, in the fourth century A. D. They tell of hospitals founded by kings, and of physicians appointed by the king, one for every ten villages, while other doctors were charged with the care of the king's army and its elephants and horses.¹⁶