Science of Medicine and Surgery in Buddhist India

Contents: Introduction. 1. Medicine and its type. 2. Diseases and remedies. 3. Surgery and surgical instruments. 4. Diseases of women. 5. Nursing, hospitals and homes of destitutes. Epilogue. Glossary of instruments. Bibliography. Index.

The author has laboriously worked on the topic, which enumerates for the first time a thousand years of history of ancient Indian science of medicine and surgery (6th B.C.6th A.D.). A thorough, exhaustive and historical medicament has been presented on the basis of original sources. Her scrupulous and methodical survey throws a flood light on various virgin points such as:

Thirty-types of medicines, sixty-two types of health-drinks, fifty types of diseases, out of which seventeen are studied intensively, rare diseases, surgery for eleven types of diseases, seventy-one surgical instruments (information and illustrations). Diseases of women--cause of barrenness, conception, contraceptives, pregnancy, birth of a child; nursing, hospitals and attendants, houses of destitutes and many such allied topics.

This book will be a unique contribution to the world of medicament and history of Buddhist India." (jacket)