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5 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470] · Asia & Pacific [Z01.586] · Historiography & General Works [K01.900]

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1877 CE

#6485.91

[Charaka Samhita. Edited by Jibananda Vidyasagara.]

CHARAKA (-600 – -200) VIDYASAGARA, Jibananda

Sanskrit text. Authorities vary as to the date of Charaka. He is said to have lived at times varying between 800 BCE and 78 CE. The Samhita, or Sanhita, is one of the most ancient and complete systems of Hindu medicin…

2003 CE

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

DAS, Rahul Peter (1954 – )

2006 CE

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

HONG KONG MUSEUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SOCIETY

1844 CE–1850 CE

#11

Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.

SUŚRUTA, (Sushruta) HESSLER, Franz (1799 – 1890)

First translation of the Suśruta Samhitā into Latin, and the first publication of this text in the West. Suśruta is said to have lived in the 6th or 5th centuries, BCE. The principal medical contribution of the ancien…

1949 CE

#10

The Charaka Samhita. 6 vols.

CHARAKA (-600 – -200)

Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English. The Charaka Samhita is the oldest known Hindu text on Ayurveda (life sciences). It was followed by the Sushruta Samhita. Except for some topics an…