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recovers, but if he cannot regain his health, he takes medicine. Their medicines are of various kinds, each having a specific name. Their doctors differ in medical skill and in prognostication. The accounts of Bāņa2 and I-Tsing: also reveal a similar progress in the field of the Medical Sciences.
1. Watters, op. cit., 1, p. 147; Beal, op. cit., 1. p. 86. 2. Harsacarita, p. 138. 3. Takakusu, op. cit., pp. 130-40.
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