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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 321

YOGARATNAKARA (ca. 1520) Yoga ratnakaraya. [n. publ.] 1907 492, 4 pp. 21.4 cm.

The present "Treatise on diseases" is one of the standard Ceylonese works on medicine and is printed entirely in Sinhalese prose and verse. Although the name of the author is not given, he calls himself Veda Kivindu (physician-poet) and indicates that he began work on the book about 1532.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.

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