[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › Hindu Medicine # Hindu Medicine Atharvavedic magic medicine, the physician's ideal, Caraka and Suśruta, humoral theory, embryology, prognostics, ethics; long translated extracts. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [Henry R. Zimmer](https://indike.org/pramana/person/zimmer-hr) - **Extent:** 861 passages, 53,176 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press 1948, ed. Ludwig Edelstein; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite;… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Henry R. Zimmer †1943) ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c1) — 10 parts - [c2 Hindu Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c2) — 5 parts - [c3 The Hideyo Noguchi Lectureship](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c3) — 12 parts - [c4 Editor's Foreword](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c4) — 17 parts - [c5 Editor's Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c5) — 3 parts - [c6 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c6) — 4 parts - [c7 I. Medical Tradition and the Hindu Physician](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c7) — 315 parts - [c8 II. The Human Body: Its Forces and Resources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8) — 239 parts - [c9 Notes to Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c9) — 5 parts - [c10 Notes to Chapter I](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c10) — 24 parts - [c11 Notes to Chapter II](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c11) — 15 parts - [c12 Index of Passages](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c12) — 8 parts - [c13 Index to Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c13) — 20 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948) · Pramāṇa