Hindu Medicine c8.156
Hindu Medicine c8.156
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c8.156
Nor is the insignificance of the lungs in Hindu medicine an isolated fact. A similar misconception prevailed with respect to the brain. Nothing was taught about its functions. There are chapters on the head, dealing with diseases of the mouth and the sense organs, a chapter on different kinds of headache caused by heat, cold, smoke, or sun, but no notion seems to exist of diseases of the brain. Functions, which modern psychology and anatomy attribute to the brain, are said to reside in the heart.