A Short History of Aryan Medical Science
Contents: Preface. 1. Early civilisation of the Hindoos. 2/ Ancient writers on Hindoo medicine. 3. The Hindoo theory of creation. 4. Hindoo practice during period of nubility. 5. Principles of Hygiene as understood by the Hindoos. 6. Theory of Indian medicine. 7. Indian materia medica. 8. Hindoo writers on etiology, diagnosis and treatment. 9. Qualities of a physician and his prognosis. 10. Indian surgery--its rise and fall. 11. Vicissitudes of Indian medicine and surgery. 12. Concluding remarks. Bibliography. Index and glossary.
A work in Hindu medicine by a reigning prince of India, who studied medicine and obtained high literary and medical degrees in England, offers promise of exceptional interest.
The book is an excellent exposition--it is excellent, concise, correct, clear, and well balanced. Medical science was, among the ancient Hindus, an integral and important part of the great body of knowledge which their wise men elaborated in very early times. The author, therefore, in presenting a sketch of Aryan medical science finds it necessary to describe the ancient civilisation of Hindustan, and the high attainments in science and art which distinguished that era.
Aryan medicine is, therefore, a revelation obtained rather by intuition than by observation. It would be very easy from this book to select, on the one hand, examples of laborious and shrewd research, and, on the other, illustrations of the advancement of medicine in ancient India. (jacket)
A work in Hindu medicine by a reigning prince of India, who studied medicine and obtained high literary and medical degrees in England, offers promise of exceptional interest.
The book is an excellent exposition--it is excellent, concise, correct, clear, and well balanced. Medical science was, among the ancient Hindus, an integral and important part of the great body of knowledge which their wise men elaborated in very early times. The author, therefore, in presenting a sketch of Aryan medical science finds it necessary to describe the ancient civilisation of Hindustan, and the high attainments in science and art which distinguished that era.
Aryan medicine is, therefore, a revelation obtained rather by intuition than by observation. It would be very easy from this book to select, on the one hand, examples of laborious and shrewd research, and, on the other, illustrations of the advancement of medicine in ancient India. (jacket)
