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| adam_text | Titel: Medicine in South India
Autor: Nirañcaṉā Tēvi, Irā
Jahr: 2006
MEDICINE IN SOUTH INDIA
A Historical Approach
(- Upto 16th Century A.D)
DETAILED CONTENTS
PREFACE i
FOREWORD iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT v
ABBREVIATIONS xiii
ABBREVIATIONS IN THAMIL LITERATURE xv
MISCELLANEOUS xvii
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DIACRITICAL MARKS xix
LIST OF MAPS xxi
LIST OF TABLES. xxiii
LIST OF PLATES xxv
INTRODUCTION xxxi
Earlier Works
SOURCES
Literary Sources
Epigraphical Sources
Archaeological Sources
Sculptural Evidences
Other Sources
Chapterization of this Work
REFERENCES
CHAPTER I
PRIMITIVE MEDICINE 1
1. TREPHINATION 3
Mohenjodaro Massacre 5
2. VEDIC MEDICINE 8
3. PRIMITIVE MEDICINE IN SOUTH INDIA 9
Treatment for Poisonous bites 13
Tribal treatment for common ailments 14
Pregnancy and Child-birth among the Tribes 16
REFERENCES 21
CHAPTER II
WORLD MEDICINE— HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
27
SECTION -1 PROGRESS OF MEDICINE IN THE WORLD 2 7
( Other than India )
1. CHINESE MEDICINE 27
Ancient Chinese Medical Treatments 28
Materia Medica 28
Moxibustion 29
Acupuncture 29
Chinese Surgery 29
2. EGYPTIAN MEDICINE 29
3. BABYLONIAN MEDICINE 30
4. GRECIAN MEDICINE-Hippocrates 31
5. ROMAN MEDICINE 33
Hospitals in Ancient Rome 33
Roman surgical tools 33
• Status and Honour of Medical Men 34
Gladius Galen 35
Dark Ages of Medicine 35
SECTION-2. INDIAN CLASSICAL MEDICINE 37
1. VEDHIC MADICINE 38
2. EVOLUTION OF AYURVEDA 38
3. CONTRIBUTION OF BUDDHISM TO MEDICAL
DEVELOPMENT 40
Medicine in the Mauryan Period 41
Medicine in the Sunga-Kushana Period 41
Medicine in Guptha Period 42
4. HOSPITALS IN ANCIENT INDIA 42
5. SURGICAL TALENTS OF ANCIENT INDIANS 43
Indian surgical tools 45
6. MEDICAL LEARNING CENTRES 46
Medical Practices 47
7. INFLUENCE OF INDIAN MEDICINE IN ARABIA 47
Arabian Medicine 48
Unani Medicine 48
SECTION-3. RENAISSANCE MEDICINE 49
1. MEDICAL SCHOLARS OF RENAISSANCE PERIOD 49
Ambroise Pare 49
Andreas Vesalius 50
2. EUROPEAN MEDICINE IN INDIA 50
3. THE PROBLEM OF CIRCULATION OF BLOOD 51
CONCLUSION 51
REFERENCES 53
CHAPTER IH
MEDICINE IN SOUTH INDIA 61
(Excluding Tamil Nadu )
SECTION-1. EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINE IN SOUTH INDIA 62
Diseases and Treatments 63
Native Treartment in Karala 63
Eye-diseases and Eye-transplantation (A
Practice of Rhinoplasty 65
Special Treatments of Kerala 65
Small-pox 65
Elephantiasis (Cochin - leg) 66
Cholera 66
Leprosy 66
Epilepsy 67
Treatment for Snake-bites 67
Role of Temples in Kerala in treating Diseases 69
Ashtavaidyas skill in Medical Treatment 70
SECTION-2. HOSPITALS IN ANCIENT SOUTH INDIA 71
Hospital at Nagarjunakonda 71
Similarities between Hospitals at Nagarjunakonda and Sri Lanka 71
Existence of Hospitals in Kerala 73
Hospitals during the Medieval Period 74
Santhacruz Hospital at Cochin 76
Royal Hospital in Goa 76
Hospital Dar-Us-Shifa 77
SECTION-3. PHYSICIANS OF SOUTH INDIA 79
Family of Physicians 80
Parahitha Family of Physicians 81
Ashtavaidhya Family of Physicians 82
Other notable physicians 83
Physicians as Personal Physicians to Kings 84
Disparity among medical Practitioners 84
Grants to Physicians towards Medical Development 85
SECTION-4. INSTITUTIONS AND MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT
87
SECTION-5. MEDICAL EDUCATION 91
Method of Learning Traditional Medicine 91
Elutthuppalli (Village school) 93
Princes and Medical Learning 94
CONCLUSION 95
REFERENCES 97
CHAPTER IV
MEDICINE IN TAMIL NADU 105
SECTION-1. THETHAMIL MEDICINE (EARLY MEDICINE) 107
1. AGATHIAR - The Founder of Siddha Medicine 107
2. SIDDHARS 109
3. SALIENT FEATURES OF SIDDHA MEDICINE 110
4. SIDDHA MEDICINE-THE THAMIL MEDICINE 110
SECTION-2. NUTRITION AND HEALTH CARE 113
1. FOOD AND HEALTH 113
2. FOOD - ALSO A MEDICINE 114
3. FOOD HABITS OF ANCIENT THAMILS 115
4. FOOD PATTERN IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD 117
5. FOOD ITEMS IN INSCRIPTIONS 118
6. FOOD HABITS IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD 118
7. NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF THE FOODS
CONSUMED BY ANCIENT THAMILS 119
SECTION-3. DISEASES 121
1. DEFINITION OF DISEASE 121
2. CAUSES OF DISEASE 122
3. DISEASES IN LITERARY WORKS 123
4. ROLE OF TEMPLES IN TREATING MENTAL ILLNESS 128
5. PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES 129
SECTION-4. MEDICINE 131
1. DEFINITION OF MEDICINE 131
2. HERBAL MEDICINE 132
3. MULTTPOWER MEDICINES 136
4. TAXATION ON CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS 143
Karusalankanni 144
Kodiveli 144
Iluppai 145
Kuvalai 146
Senkalunir 146
Other taxable herbal plants 147
SECTION-5. MEDICAL TREATMENT 149
1. CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD PHYSICIAN 149
2. GYNAECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS 151
Sculptural Representations 154
Care of Mother and Child after delivery 156
3. EYE-TRANSPLANTATION 157
4. MUSICO-THERAPY 158
5. PRESERVATION OF DEAD BODIES 159
6. TOXICOLOGY 160
7. HERBAL TREATMENT FOR EMERGENCY 161
SECTION-6. SURGERY 163
1. EVIDENCE OF EXCAVATION FOR ANCIENT
SURGICAL TALENT 163
2. SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR WOUNDS 163
3. SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR TUMOUR 165
Surgical treatment for weapon-injury 165
SECTION-7. HOSPITALS IN ANCIENT THAMIL NADU 167
1. HEALING CENTRES IN SANGAM AGE 167
2. DEVELOPMENT OF HOSPITAL SYSTEM 168
Hospital at Thanjavur 169
Hospital at Thiruvisalur 169
Hospital at Vembatthur 169
Hospital at Thirumukkudal 170
Remuneration of Hospital staff 173
Hospital at Thiruppugalur 175
Hospital at Srirangam 175
Dhanvanthari Shrine at Srirangam 177
Hospital at Thirundhudhevankudi 180
Free Medical Service 180
SECTION-8. MEDICAL EDUCATION IN ANCIENT THAMIL NADU 181
1. ATTITUDE OF ANCIENT THAMILS
TOWARDS EDUCATION 181
2. EDUCATION IN SANGAM PERIOD 182
3. PATRONAGE TOWARDS EDUCATION 183
Importance of Moral Education 184
4. PATTERN OF MEDICAL EDUCATION IN
SANGAM PERIOD 184
5. SIDDHA MEDICAL EDUCATION 185
6. CHANGE IN THE TREND OF MEDICAL EDUCATION 187
7. MEDICAL EDUCATIONIN MEDIEVAL PERIOD 188
SECTION-9. STATUS OF MEDICAL MEN 189
1. EDUCATIONAL STATUS 189
Physician as a Poet 189
Physician as a Musician 190
Physician as a Member of a Council 190
2. POLITICAL STATUS 191
Physician as a Minister to the King 191
3. PHYSICIANS DISTINGUISHED BY HONORARY TITLES 191
4. SOCIAL STATUS 192
Family of Physicians 192
Barber s family in Medical service 193
5. ECONOMIC STATUS 195
6. INCENTIVE GRANTS TO PHYSICIANS 196
General Grants 196
Special Gifts 197
SPECIAL GRANTS 198
Vaidhya BhaagamandVaidhya Bhogam 198
Vaidhyakkaani 199
Athular Bhogam 199
Vaidhya virutthi 199
Salliya Virutthi 200
Salliya Bhogam 200
Salliyak kiriya Bhogam 200
Visha Bhogam and Vishahara Bhogam 201
Grant to Barbers and Midwives 201
Grants to Physicians for doing Religious Service 202
7. PHYSICIANS IN TEMPLE SERVICE 203
Religious Gift of a Nurse 204
SECTION-10. TEMPLE AND MEDICAL SCIENCE 205
1. MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DEITY WORSHIP 205
Installation of Idol in Temple 205
2. IDOL WORSHIP AND MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE 207
Abhisheham 207
3. MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF PRASADHAMS 208
Sandal and Tender coconut water 208
Thiruniru or Vibhudhi 209
Changu abhisheham and Changu thirttham 210
Nivedhyam or Naivedhyam 211
Nivedhyam in Inscriptions Aaraadhana 212
4. SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF ABHISHEHAM AND
ARADHANA WORSHIP 213
5. MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PRADHAKSHANA 213
6. MEDICINAL EFFECT OF VINAYAGA WORSHIP 214
7. MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF VELVT 215
8. HEALING POWER OF PYRAMID 218
9. FAITH-HEALING: ITS MEDICINAL BASIS 220
Worship for want of Child 223
Snake-poison cured by Divine-worship 223
Healing Powers of Prayers and Worship 223
Alaku kutthuthal and Acupuncture 225
10. MEDICAL BASIS OF SOME OTHER PRACTICE
OF THAMIL PEOPLE 227
11. OFFERINGS TO GOD AND FAITH-HEALING 227
Offerings of one s Life for the welfare of
his Master/Community 228
Offerings for the welfare of one s self 230
Offerings for the welfare of one s Family 230
Offerings for the welfare of the Society 230
Offerings for the welfare of the King 231
12. GODS OF MEDICINE 232
1. Brahma 232
2. Aswini Dhevas 232
3. Athreya Punarvasu 233
4. Dhanwanthri 233
5. Agathiyar 234
6. Other Siddhas 235
7. Lord Shiva as God of Medicine 235
CONCLUSION 237
REFERENCES 239
EPILOGUE 257
BIBLIOGRAPHY 261
LIST OF HERBALS 301
TABLES OF REFERENCES 305
APPENDIX 331
GLOSSARY 335
INDEX 339
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Titel: Medicine in South India
Autor: Nirañcaṉā Tēvi, Irā
Jahr: 2006
MEDICINE IN SOUTH INDIA
A Historical Approach
(- Upto 16th Century A.D)
DETAILED CONTENTS
PREFACE i
FOREWORD iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT v
ABBREVIATIONS xiii
ABBREVIATIONS IN THAMIL LITERATURE xv
MISCELLANEOUS xvii
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DIACRITICAL MARKS xix
LIST OF MAPS xxi
LIST OF TABLES. xxiii
LIST OF PLATES xxv
INTRODUCTION xxxi
Earlier Works
SOURCES
Literary Sources
Epigraphical Sources
Archaeological Sources
Sculptural Evidences
Other Sources
Chapterization of this Work
REFERENCES
CHAPTER I
PRIMITIVE MEDICINE 1
1. TREPHINATION 3
Mohenjodaro Massacre 5
2. VEDIC MEDICINE 8
3. PRIMITIVE MEDICINE IN SOUTH INDIA 9
Treatment for Poisonous bites 13
Tribal treatment for common ailments 14
Pregnancy and Child-birth among the Tribes 16
REFERENCES 21
CHAPTER II
WORLD MEDICINE— HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
27
SECTION -1 PROGRESS OF MEDICINE IN THE WORLD 2 7
( Other than India )
1. CHINESE MEDICINE 27
Ancient Chinese Medical Treatments 28
Materia Medica 28
Moxibustion 29
Acupuncture 29
Chinese Surgery 29
2. EGYPTIAN MEDICINE 29
3. BABYLONIAN MEDICINE 30
4. GRECIAN MEDICINE-Hippocrates 31
5. ROMAN MEDICINE 33
Hospitals in Ancient Rome 33
Roman surgical tools 33
• Status and Honour of Medical Men 34
Gladius Galen 35
Dark Ages of Medicine 35
SECTION-2. INDIAN CLASSICAL MEDICINE 37
1. VEDHIC MADICINE 38
2. EVOLUTION OF AYURVEDA 38
3. CONTRIBUTION OF BUDDHISM TO MEDICAL
DEVELOPMENT 40
Medicine in the Mauryan Period 41
Medicine in the Sunga-Kushana Period 41
Medicine in Guptha Period 42
4. HOSPITALS IN ANCIENT INDIA 42
5. SURGICAL TALENTS OF ANCIENT INDIANS 43
Indian surgical tools 45
6. MEDICAL LEARNING CENTRES 46
Medical Practices 47
7. INFLUENCE OF INDIAN MEDICINE IN ARABIA 47
Arabian Medicine 48
Unani Medicine 48
SECTION-3. RENAISSANCE MEDICINE 49
1. MEDICAL SCHOLARS OF RENAISSANCE PERIOD 49
Ambroise Pare 49
Andreas Vesalius 50
2. EUROPEAN MEDICINE IN INDIA 50
3. THE PROBLEM OF CIRCULATION OF BLOOD 51
CONCLUSION 51
REFERENCES 53
CHAPTER IH
MEDICINE IN SOUTH INDIA 61
(Excluding Tamil Nadu )
SECTION-1. EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICINE IN SOUTH INDIA 62
Diseases and Treatments 63
Native Treartment in Karala 63
Eye-diseases and Eye-transplantation (A
Practice of Rhinoplasty 65
Special Treatments of Kerala 65
Small-pox 65
Elephantiasis (Cochin - leg) 66
Cholera 66
Leprosy 66
Epilepsy 67
Treatment for Snake-bites 67
Role of Temples in Kerala in treating Diseases 69
Ashtavaidyas' skill in Medical Treatment 70
SECTION-2. HOSPITALS IN ANCIENT SOUTH INDIA 71
Hospital at Nagarjunakonda 71
Similarities between Hospitals at Nagarjunakonda and Sri Lanka 71
Existence of Hospitals in Kerala 73
Hospitals during the Medieval Period 74
Santhacruz Hospital at Cochin 76
Royal Hospital in Goa 76
Hospital Dar-Us-Shifa 77
SECTION-3. PHYSICIANS OF SOUTH INDIA 79
Family of Physicians 80
Parahitha Family of Physicians 81
Ashtavaidhya Family of Physicians 82
Other notable physicians 83
Physicians as Personal Physicians to Kings 84
Disparity among medical Practitioners 84
Grants to Physicians towards Medical Development 85
SECTION-4. INSTITUTIONS AND MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT
87
SECTION-5. MEDICAL EDUCATION 91
Method of Learning Traditional Medicine 91
Elutthuppalli (Village school) 93
Princes and Medical Learning 94
CONCLUSION 95
REFERENCES 97
CHAPTER IV
MEDICINE IN TAMIL NADU 105
SECTION-1. THETHAMIL MEDICINE (EARLY MEDICINE) 107
1. AGATHIAR - The Founder of Siddha Medicine 107
2. SIDDHARS 109
3. SALIENT FEATURES OF SIDDHA MEDICINE 110
4. SIDDHA MEDICINE-THE THAMIL MEDICINE 110
SECTION-2. NUTRITION AND HEALTH CARE 113
1. FOOD AND HEALTH 113
2. FOOD - ALSO A MEDICINE 114
3. FOOD HABITS OF ANCIENT THAMILS 115
4. FOOD PATTERN IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD 117
5. FOOD ITEMS IN INSCRIPTIONS 118
6. FOOD HABITS IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD 118
7. NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF THE FOODS
CONSUMED BY ANCIENT THAMILS 119
SECTION-3. DISEASES 121
1. DEFINITION OF DISEASE 121
2. CAUSES OF DISEASE 122
3. DISEASES IN LITERARY WORKS 123
4. ROLE OF TEMPLES IN TREATING MENTAL ILLNESS 128
5. PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES 129
SECTION-4. MEDICINE 131
1. DEFINITION OF MEDICINE 131
2. HERBAL MEDICINE 132
3. MULTTPOWER MEDICINES 136
4. TAXATION ON CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS 143
Karusalankanni 144
Kodiveli 144
Iluppai 145
Kuvalai 146
Senkalunir 146
Other taxable herbal plants 147
SECTION-5. MEDICAL TREATMENT 149
1. CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD PHYSICIAN 149
2. GYNAECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS 151
Sculptural Representations 154
Care of Mother and Child after delivery 156
3. EYE-TRANSPLANTATION 157
4. MUSICO-THERAPY 158
5. PRESERVATION OF DEAD BODIES 159
6. TOXICOLOGY 160
7. HERBAL TREATMENT FOR EMERGENCY 161
SECTION-6. SURGERY 163
1. EVIDENCE OF EXCAVATION FOR ANCIENT
SURGICAL TALENT 163
2. SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR WOUNDS 163
3. SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR TUMOUR 165
Surgical treatment for weapon-injury 165
SECTION-7. HOSPITALS IN ANCIENT THAMIL NADU 167
1. HEALING CENTRES IN SANGAM AGE 167
2. DEVELOPMENT OF HOSPITAL SYSTEM 168
Hospital at Thanjavur 169
Hospital at Thiruvisalur 169
Hospital at Vembatthur 169
Hospital at Thirumukkudal 170
Remuneration of Hospital staff 173
Hospital at Thiruppugalur 175
Hospital at Srirangam 175
Dhanvanthari Shrine at Srirangam 177
Hospital at Thirundhudhevankudi 180
Free Medical Service 180
SECTION-8. MEDICAL EDUCATION IN ANCIENT THAMIL NADU 181
1. ATTITUDE OF ANCIENT THAMILS
TOWARDS EDUCATION 181
2. EDUCATION IN SANGAM PERIOD 182
3. PATRONAGE TOWARDS EDUCATION 183
Importance of Moral Education 184
4. PATTERN OF MEDICAL EDUCATION IN
SANGAM PERIOD 184
5. SIDDHA MEDICAL EDUCATION 185
6. CHANGE IN THE TREND OF MEDICAL EDUCATION 187
7. MEDICAL EDUCATIONIN MEDIEVAL PERIOD 188
SECTION-9. STATUS OF MEDICAL MEN 189
1. EDUCATIONAL STATUS 189
Physician as a Poet 189
Physician as a Musician 190
Physician as a Member of a Council 190
2. POLITICAL STATUS 191
Physician as a Minister to the King 191
3. PHYSICIANS DISTINGUISHED BY HONORARY TITLES 191
4. SOCIAL STATUS 192
Family of Physicians 192
Barber's family in Medical service 193
5. ECONOMIC STATUS 195
6. INCENTIVE GRANTS TO PHYSICIANS 196
General Grants 196
Special Gifts 197
SPECIAL GRANTS 198
Vaidhya BhaagamandVaidhya Bhogam 198
Vaidhyakkaani 199
Athular Bhogam 199
Vaidhya virutthi 199
Salliya Virutthi 200
Salliya Bhogam 200
Salliyak kiriya Bhogam 200
Visha Bhogam and Vishahara Bhogam 201
Grant to Barbers and Midwives 201
Grants to Physicians for doing Religious Service 202
7. PHYSICIANS IN TEMPLE SERVICE 203
Religious Gift of a Nurse 204
SECTION-10. TEMPLE AND MEDICAL SCIENCE 205
1. MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DEITY WORSHIP 205
Installation of Idol in Temple 205
2. IDOL WORSHIP AND MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE 207
Abhisheham 207
3. MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF 'PRASADHAMS' 208
Sandal and Tender coconut water 208
Thiruniru or Vibhudhi 209
Changu abhisheham and Changu thirttham 210
Nivedhyam or Naivedhyam 211
Nivedhyam in Inscriptions Aaraadhana 212
4. SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF 'ABHISHEHAM' AND
'ARADHANA' WORSHIP 213
5. MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF 'PRADHAKSHANA' 213
6. MEDICINAL EFFECT OF VINAYAGA WORSHIP 214
7. MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF 'VELVT 215
8. HEALING POWER OF'PYRAMID' 218
9. FAITH-HEALING: ITS MEDICINAL BASIS 220
Worship for want of Child 223
Snake-poison cured by Divine-worship 223
Healing Powers of Prayers and Worship 223
Alaku kutthuthal and Acupuncture 225
10. MEDICAL BASIS OF SOME OTHER PRACTICE
OF THAMIL PEOPLE 227
11. OFFERINGS TO GOD AND FAITH-HEALING 227
Offerings of one's Life for the welfare of
his Master/Community 228
Offerings for the welfare of one's self 230
Offerings for the welfare of one's Family 230
Offerings for the welfare of the Society 230
Offerings for the welfare of the King 231
12. GODS OF MEDICINE 232
1. Brahma 232
2. Aswini Dhevas 232
3. Athreya Punarvasu 233
4. Dhanwanthri 233
5. Agathiyar 234
6. Other Siddhas 235
7. Lord Shiva as 'God of Medicine' 235
CONCLUSION 237
REFERENCES 239
EPILOGUE 257
BIBLIOGRAPHY 261
LIST OF HERBALS 301
TABLES OF REFERENCES 305
APPENDIX 331
GLOSSARY 335
INDEX 339 |
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