Hindu Medicine c8.195

c8.195

Modern medicine, in a remarkable series of revolutionary progressive steps, during the last two centuries, discarded a great number of its cherished traditional beliefs as so many superstitions; and it has derived the power for these daring transformations largely from its irrepressible urge toward new truths as they prevailed in related sciences. The startling results yielded by the general scientific progress could not but interfere with medicine’s traditional conceptions and methods.