The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

by Edward Berdoe

[243] Weber, Hist. Ind. Lit., p. 270.

[244] Ibid.

[245] Wise’s Hindu Medicine, p. 184.

[246] Hindu Medicine, p. 8.

[247] Hist. Ind. Lit., p. 268.

[248] Wise’s Hindu Medicine, p. 213.

[249] There would seem to be an artful idea under these signs. Most of them have no relation whatever to the patient’s condition, but are of great importance to the doctor’s convenience, and are evidently arranged to suit his own purposes.

[250] Ainslie’s Materia Indica, vol. ii. p. 525.

[251] Arrian’s Indian History, vol. ii. p. 232 (ed. 1729).

[252] Strabo, Geography, Book xv. c. 1.