Hindu Medicine c9: Notes to Introduction
Hindu Medicine c9
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Notes to Introduction
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Moritz Winternitz, *Geschichte der Indischen Literatur*, 3. Band, Leipzig, 1920, pp. 541-554 on medical literature, is practically a descriptive catalogue of the main texts of Hindu medicine and the comments upon them by Oriental scholars.
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For Hindu medicine in the general history of medicine, cf. Charles Greene Cumston, *An Introduction to the History of Medicine*, New York, 1926; Arturo Castiglioni, *A History of Medicine*, transl. from the Italian and ed. by E. B. Krumbhaar, New York, 1941; II. H. Sir Bhagavat Sinh Jee, *A Short History of Aryan Medical Science*, New York, 1896; P. Cordier, *Etude sur la Médecine Hindoue*, Thèse de Paris, 1894; A. F. R. Hoernle, *Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India*, Part I “Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body,” Oxford, 1907, and “Studies in Ancient Indian Medicine,” *Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society*, 1909; Kavibhushana, Kaviraj Biraja Charan Gupta, *An Account of the Principal Works of the Atreya School of Medicine with their Chronology*, Calcutta, 1917; Girindranāth Mukhopādhyāya Bhishagācārya, *History of Indian Medicine*, 2 vols., Calcutta, 1923-26; Chandra Chakraberty, *An Interpretation of Ancient Hindu Medicine*, Calcutta, 1923.
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¹ Cf. Maurice Bloomfield, “The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha-Brāmaṇa,” *Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan Research*, II, 1, B. Translations of Atharvaveda hymns by Maurice Bloomfield in *Sacred Books of the East*, Vol. 42.
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² Cf. Whitney-Lanman translation, p. 22.
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³ Cf. Whitney-Lanman translation, p. 498; and W. Caland’s translation of *Kauśika-Sūtra* (“Altindisches Zauberritual”) in *Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Afdeeling Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, Deel III, No. 2*, Amsterdam, 1900; §§ 26, 40. In addition to its use against diseases in general, this hymn is used as part of a ritual imparting