Hindu Medicine c8.194

c8.194

Nothing comparable to this process, unique in the history of human thought, could have happened in India. Hindu philosophy offered no help, no inspiration in this direction; bent on metaphysics, and centered upon the quest of releasing the soul from the bondage of the realm of sense, and suffering through an elaborate technique of introspective experience, it was inclined to ignore the range of empirical facts in the outer world; and furthermore, Hindu medicine was incapable of producing a revolutionary impulse out of itself, because, as is invariably true, medicine throughout its history is cautious and conservative when isolated from other sciences.