Studies on Indian Medical History /
Papers presented at the International Workshop on the Study of Indian Medicine held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 2-4 September 1985.
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
1987.
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Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
Groningen Oriental Studies ;
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Call Number: R605
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Preliminary Material /
- G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk
- Preface /
- G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk
- Chapter 1 Reflections on the basic concepts of Indian pharmacology /
- G. Jan Meulenbeld
- Chapter 2 On the identification of a Vedic plant /
- Rahul Peter Das
- Chapter 3 Carakasaṃhitā, Śārīrasthāna I and Vaiśeṣika philosophy /
- Antonella Comba
- Chapter 4 Epilepsy according to the Rgyud-bźi /
- R. E. Emmerick
- Chapter 5 Vaiḍūrya /
- Marianne Winder
- Chapter 6 Études āyurvédiques /
- Arion Roşu
- Chapter 7 On Mādhavacikitsā /
- Johannes Laping
- Chapter 8 The relationship of Indian and European practitioners of medicine from the sixteenth century /
- T. J. S. Patterson
- Chapter 9 'A Pious Fraud': The Indian claims for pre-Jennerian smallpox vaccination /
- Dominik Wujastyk
- Chapter 10 The establishment of 'Native Lunatic Asylums' in early nineteenth-century British India /
- Waltraud Ernst
- Chapter 11 Centella asiatica (L.) Urban in perspective: an evaluative account /
- R. P. Labadie and K. T. D. De Silva
- Chapter 12 The results of an analysis based on a video of consultations in five āyurvedic medical practices /
- D. von Schmädel and B. Hochkirchen
- Chapter 13 Contrasting treatment of witches in three communities in Mewar /
- G. M. Carstairs
- Chapter 14 Dialogue in research on traditional Indian medicine /
- Johannes Laping
- Back Matter
- The contributors /
- G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.