[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Hindu Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948) › c9 # Hindu Medicine c9: Notes to Introduction Hindu Medicine c9 - **Language:** English ### Notes to Introduction ### [c9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c9.1) 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. ### [c9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c9.2) 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. ### [c9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c9.3) 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. ### [c9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c9.4) ² Cf. Whitney-Lanman translation, p. 22. ### [c9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c9.5) 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 --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c9) · Pramāṇa