Hindu Medicine c8.178

c8.178

Anatomy, though assigned first rank as a means of investigating the structure of the organism, evidently proved of no great avail in clearing the complex concepts of the vascular system and its processes from the hazy atmosphere of speculative thought. What, then, were the actual achievements and limits of anatomy, when, as part of surgery, it became integrated into the body of medical wisdom? What were the chances, what the limitations of its growth set by the pattern of Hindu thought and life?