Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature by Anthony Cerulli

2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 684-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Scharfe
Keyword(s):  
Medical Literature ◽  
Indian Medical

scholarly journals Doṣas by the Numbers

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Zysk
Keyword(s):  
Medical Literature ◽  
Early Time ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
Hippocratic Corpus ◽  
Early Buddhism ◽  
Literary Sources

This paper explores the origins of the Indian medical nosology involving the three doṣas from the perspective of its formulation into three or four distinct types. The essay compares similarities in passages from three different literary sources: Pāļi texts of early Buddhism, early Sanskrit medical literature, and Greek texts from the Hippocratic Corpus and the Anonymus Londiniensis. The study reveals that the tridoṣa-theory, common to āyurvedic literature from an early time was based on the adoption and then adaption of ideas nourished by an intellectual exchange with the Greek-speaking world.

scholarly journals Mendicants and Medicine: Āyurveda in Jain Monastic Texts

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Jyväsjärvi Stuart
Keyword(s):  
Medical Literature ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Medical Procedures ◽  
Early Medieval Period ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
Monastic Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
Physical Distress ◽  
Medical Treatises ◽  
Canonical Texts

While early canonical Jain literature may well justify the assessment that some scholars have made about the Jains’ stoic resistance to medical aid, later post-canonical Śvetāmbara Jain texts reveal in fact a much more complex relationship to practices of healing. They make frequent references to medical practice and the alleviation of sickness, describing various medical procedures and instruments and devoting long sections to the interaction between doctors and monastics as issues that a monastic community would have to negotiate as a matter of course. The amount of medical knowledge — indeed fascination with healing human ailments — evident in these later texts invites us to pause before concluding that pre-modern Jain monastic traditions were disinterested in alleviating physical distress. It seems that, on the contrary, the question of when and how to treat the sick within the community emerged as a central concern that preoccupied the monastic authorities and commentators and left its mark on the texts they compiled. Moreover, from the early medieval period onwards, Jains enter the history of Indian medical literature as authors and compilers of actual medical treatises. In what follows, I try to trace this historical shift in Śvetāmbara Jain attitudes to medicine and healing, from the early canonical texts to post-canonical commentaries on the mendicants’ rules. Specifically, I focus on the treatment of medicine in three monastic commentaries composed around the sixth and seventh centuries CE.

IndMed : An Evaluative Study on the Coverage of Indian Medical Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
N. Subramanyam ◽  
M. Krishnamurthy ◽  
A. Y. Asundi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Literature ◽  
Evaluative Study ◽  
Indian Medical

scholarly journals Teratoma of the Neck on Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology: An Unusual Case Presentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. C6-9
Author(s):  
Challa Sukumar ◽  
Aarzoo Jahan ◽  
Shakti Kumar Yadav ◽  
Sompal Singh ◽  
Namrata Sarin
Keyword(s):  
Unusual Case ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Needle Aspiration ◽  
Aspiration Cytology ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Fine Needle ◽  
Cervical Teratoma ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
Cell Layers ◽  
Needle Aspiration Cytology

Teratomas are tumours which are derived from all the 3 germ cell layers: endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm with varying proportions. Cervical teratomas in children are almost always benign but locally aggressive. They can present with respiratory distress and immediate excision is required. The cervical teratoma is an uncommon entity which are rarely reported in Indian medical literature particularly on FNA. We present a case of an anterior cervical teratoma in an infant which was diagnosed on the base of FNA material.

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