# A Short History of Aryan Medical Science

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A SHORT HISTORY
OF
ARYAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
A SHORT HISTORY
OF
ARYAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
BY
H.H. Sir BHAGVAT SINH JEE, k.c.i.e.
M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.C.P.E.
THAKORE SAHEB OF GONDAL
WITH TEN PLATES
LONDON
MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
NEW YORK : THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1896
TO
PROFESSOR SIR WILLIAM TURNER
M.B., LL.D., D.C.L., D.SC, F.R.S., etc.
IN CHERISHED REMEMBRANCE OF
MANY HAPPY HOURS
This small Volume is inscribed
BY
HIS GRATEFUL PUPIL AND ADMIRER
PREFACE.
The literature of Aryan Medicine is so vast and copious that it is impossible to do adequate justice to its history within the compass of a small manual. The science is acknowledged on all hands to be of great antiquity, and contains a mine of information not to be altogether despised by the students of medicine of our day. Should it be approached in a spirit of fairness and inquiry, possibly it might disclose the germs of not a few of the marvellous discoveries in the realm of Medicine of which the present century is justly proud, and afford a diligent scholar ample scope and materials for comparison between the old and the new systems, with a view to supply the deficiencies of the one or the other for the benefit of mankind. An elaborate and complete history of Hindoo Medical Science is a great desideratum. If this humble attempt, however imperfect and fragmentary, should induce any of my readers to set himself seriously to the task of compiling from original sources a more readable and comprehensive history, I shall consider my labour to have been well spent.
B. S. J.
Gondal, 1895.
CONTENTS.
* Chapterpage
* I.Early Civilisation of the Hindoos,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................11
* II.Ancient Writers on Hindoo Medicine................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................24
* III.The Hindoo Theory of Creation................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................40
* IV.Hindoo Practice during Period of Nubility................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................45
* V.Principles of Hygiene as understood by the Hindoos................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................56
* VI.Theory of Indian Medicine................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................85
* VII.Indian Materia Medica................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................101
* VIII.Hindoo Writers on Ætiology, Diagnosis and Treatment................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................151
* IX.Qualities of a Physician and his Prognosis................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................161
* X.Indian Surgery — its Rise and Fall................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................176
* XI.Vicissitudes of Indian Medicine and Surgery................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................187
* XII.Concluding Remarks................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................201
* Bibliography................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................207
* Index and Glossary................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................217
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Plates I.-VI.
Pharmaceutical Apparatus.
Plates VII.-X.
Surgical Appliances and Instruments.