Kill or Cure: week 4

South Asia Interactions between ‘English Medicine’ and Indigenous Medical Practices

Lecturer: David Hardiman

India under the East India Company 1756-1859

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• Western medicine was known in India as ‘allopathy’ or ‘English medicine’ – in Hindi: ‘Angreji dava’.

• Indians who practised ‘English medicine’ were known as daktars and their practice ‘doctory’ (daktari).

AryurvedaThe 3 humors

Practitioners: Vaids

Unani TibbThe Four HumorsPractitioners: Hakims

Unani Tibb: taking the pulse

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Healing shrines

Exorcist – the Dangs, Gujarat

Ms. S. was mentally affected by witchcraft power - received baptism.

A Bengali Daktar’sPractice

1874

Unqualified ‘daktar’ gives injection

A daktar’s clinic

The revival of Ayurveda and

Unani Tibb

Standardisation of indigenous medicines

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Ayurvedic medical tourism - Kerala

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