The present work aims at an orderly, and at the same time historical treatment of the Ayurvedic system of medicine. It is an English rendering of Julius Jolly's Medizin in German originally published in 1901, and supplemented by the translator with bibliography and notes covering the literary activity in the field during the next fifth years. It deals with sources, Physicians and Therapy, Theoretical conceptions, Theory and External Diseases, Diseases of the Head, Nervous and Mental Diseases and Toxicology.
The book is a model of critical research condensed with the utmost brevity of words without omitting any important detail of fact or text bearing on the history of Indian Medicine. A historical approach as has been made in writing this book is a dire necessity for Ayurvedic research work - both literary and practical. The history of Ayurveda indeed claims a better position in the general history of Medicine. The conceptions of the Physician of ancient India have played a great role in the general culture of India and have entered in many Philosophical doctrines as the basic elements. The Indian Medicine has played in Asia the same role as the Greek Medicine in the West. It has spread in Indo-China, Indonesia, Tibet, Central Asia and Japan exactly as the Greek Medicine has done in Europe and the Arab countries. It was studied by the Greeks, the Arabs, the Portuguese and the Dutch, and in the 19th century it secured a place in the scientific literature of Europe. Thus the study of Indian Medicine has taken its place in the classical Science. Throughout the progress of historical studies it has become possible to consider with greater precision the correspondence of Indian Medicine with those of Greek, Iran, Islam and China. Pharmacological value of Ayurvedic drugs has also been fixed. On this background the study of Indian Medicine presented in this book will be profitable presented in this book will be profitable for a deeper understanding of the history of Medicine in general and of Indian Medicine in particular.
About the Author
Dr. Julius Jolly (Wurzberg) - the author of the original German book Medizin was one of the great German Orientlists who continued their literary research during the closing years of the 19th and the beginning years of the 20the century. Besides the history of Indian Medicine, he had specialized in Kautilya's Arthasastra and Hindu Law and Custom.
Dr. Chintamani Genesh Kashikar (born 1910) - the only D. Litt. In Sanskrit so far of the University of Poona, is a Vedic scholar. He is the author of ten books and over fifty research papers are to his credit. At present he is working as an editor in the Sanskrit Dictionary Department of the Deccan Collage, Pune.
Contents:
Abbreviation System of Transliteration Preface to the Second Edition Foreword by Dr. J. Filliozat An Appreciation by Prof. P. K. Gode Preface by the Translator CHAPTER 1 SOURCES 1. Modern Works 2. 16th to 18th Century 3. The Later Middle Age 4. Vangasena and Cakradatta 5. Siddhayoga and Madhavanidana 6. Vagbhata 7. Atreya-Harita 8. Susruta 9. Caraka 10. Origin of Ayurveda 11. Medical Glossaries 12. Veterinary Science 13. The Central-Asiatic MSS 14. Buddhistic Works 15. Vedic Medicine 16. External Relations 17. Bibliography CHAPTER 2 PHYSICIANS AND THERAPY 18. Training of Physicians 19. Position and Practice of Physicians 20. Diagnosis 21. Prognosis 22. Healing Substances 23. Properties of Medicines 24. Curing Methods 25. Form and Quality of Medicine 26. Mercury and Opium 27. Surgical Operations 28. Surgical Instruments 29. Cauterisation and Branding 30. Blood-letting 31. Diet 32. Hygienic Directions CHAPTER 3 THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS 33. The Tridosas 34. The Seven Basic Elements 35. Anatomy 36. Dissection 37. Philosophy and Cosmology 38. Pathology CHAPTER 4 THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT AND GYNECOLOGY 39. Menstruation and Conception 40. Pregnancy 41. Embryology 42. Obstetrics and Care of the Confined Woman 43. Care of the New-born 44. The Wet-nurse 45. Abortion 46. Treatment of Abortion 47. Obstructed Delivery 48. Treatment of Obstructed Delivery 49. Women's Diseases and their Treatment CHAPTER 5 INTERNAL DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT 50. Children's Diseases 51. Fever 52. Diarrhoea, Dysentary and Cholera 53. Additional Diseases of Digestion 54. Swelling of Abdomen 55. Worm-diseases 56. Diabetes 57. Urinary Stone 58. Strangury and Retention of Urine 59. Chlorosis and Jaundice 60. Haemorrhage 61. Consumption and Tuberculosis 62. Cough, Asthma and Hiccup 63. Heat-diseases 64. Diseases of Larynx 65. Thirst and Burning, Fatness and Thinness CHAPTER 6 EXTERNAL DISEASES 66. Small-pox 67. Minor Diseases (ksudra roga) 68. Leprosy and allied Skin-diseases 69. Inflammations and Tumours 70. St. Anthony's Fire, Boils, Nettle-rash, Measles 71. External and Internal Abscesses 72. Growths, Tumours, Scrofulous Tumours, Goitre 73. Elephantiasis 74. Swollen Testicles, Hernia, Hydrocele 75. Other Diseases of the Male Organ 76. Haemorrhoids 77. Fistula 78. Ulcers 79. Traumas 80. Bone-fractures and Dislocations 81. Foreign Bodies CHAPTER 7 DISEASES OF THE HEAD 82. Eye-diseases 83. Treatment of Eye-diseases 84. Ear-diseases 85. Otoplasty, Rhinoplasty, Cheiloplasty 86. Nasal Diseases 87. Mouth-diseases 88. Head-diseases CHAPTER 8 NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES, TOXICOLOGY 89. Diseases of Vata (vatavyadi) 90. Rheumatism 91. Faint, Giddiness and Apoplexy 92. Intoxication and Delirium tremens 93. Epilepsy 94. Madness and Possession 95. Poisons and Antidotes ADDENDA SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES by the Translator SANSKRIT INDEX GENERAL INDEX
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