The Science of Hindu Medicine/Henry R. ZimmerThe Science of Hindu Medicine
by Henry R. Zimmer

The Hindu Medicine, by Dr. Zimmer, as it now stands, first deals with the oldest Vedic tradition, the medical gods, the literary evidence, the general significance of medicine, the education and career of the physicians, the hospitals, the implications of medical wisdom, signs and names of diseases, the relationship between macrocosm and microcosm is analyzed, the doctrine of the life force and of breath, the theory of the humors and of the body, the teaching of anatomy and physiology are discussed. He has also compared Indian Medicine with Greek Medicine and showed how Indian Medicine had influence over Greek Medicine.

In presenting characteristic elements of Hindu medical tradition through selections from chark the present work offers approach to the understanding of the aims and ideals of Hindu medicine, its characteristics, and its possible value for stimulating and enlarging the views of today’s medicine. Modern medicine may well gain a fresh impulse and insight through reviewing the venerable history of the Hindu discipline.

Contents:

• Editor’s foreword. Editor’s preface. Introduction
• Medical tradition and the Hindu Physician
• The human body : its forces and resources.
• Notes to introduction.
• Notes to chapter I
• Notes to chapter II
• Index of passages.