Hindu Medicine c7.292

c7.292

Hindu medicine is well equipped with instruments for various purposes. Still, the physician is told that his best instrument will always be his own skilled hand. For the diagnosis he will have to a large extent to rely on his own senses, on what they tell him of the patient and his environment, on what he perceives in watching and scrutinizing the organism of the patient with his eyes and hands, on what the noises and smells emanating from the patient’s body may tell him. His senses, sharpened by experience and instructed by traditional knowledge, are his principal guides in diagnosis.