CARAKA SAMHITA (A Scientific Synopsis)

New Delhi: National Institute of Sciences of India, 1965. — n/a.The present monograph of Caraka Samhita is the first of a series of studies being published by the National Institute of Sciences of India which in 1959 constituted a Board for the compilation of a Histoty of Sciences in India. Several bibliographies and monographs are now ready and their publication will be taken up as and when funds become available.
In the present work a synoptic survey of the Caraka Samhita, a well-khown medical treatise of ancient India, has beeb made. The concepts, processes, methods, and materials, which occur in the treatise in a scattered manner, interspersed with an abundance of metaphysical disquisitions and with frequent reference to Vedic gods and hyms, have been co-ordinated and systematized from a scientific point of view. Most of the materials have been arranged in tabular forms for ready reference and rapid survey. Wherever necessary, and as far as possible, both English and Latin equivalents of all Sanskrit names and terms have been supplied to avoid ambiguities in their identification.Authorship And Date Of Composition
Scope And Sub-Divisions Of The Treatise
Consepts And Theories
Physiological Processes
Health And Longevity
Physicians In Caraka
Diagnosis Of Diseases
Methods Of Treatment, Incuding Surgery
Poisons
Physicochemical Processes
Classifications
Tables