Hindu Medicine c8.193

c8.193

In Greece, under the first impact of modern thought, traditional archaic cosmology exploded, the Olympian gods shook on their thrones, doomed sooner or later to vanish away. What is more, the whole trend of archaic mythical thought became discredited, and a new era of scientific criticism and methodical research started. Greek medicine, stimulated by Alcmaeon’s anatomical discoveries and method, rushed towards the conquest of a new concept of man.