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This illuminating and often astonishing booklet skillfully creates a abundant tapestry from the writings, encounters, and developing medical understanding of the diverse healers who have practiced their craft and calling in the huge lands of India. Baid, Hakim & Doctors is based on the lesser known medical histories of India that contain continued to be buried in the internet pages of oft-forgotten medical periodicals and publications. Following centuries of consistent invasions from the armies and ethnicities of other lands and ethnicities, India became a melting container of Asian and Western medicinal herbal remedies, metals and drugs. The original Baid (medicine healer), along with his understanding of Ayurveda; the Hakim, along with his Persian treatment touch; and Western doctors, with the new-age innovations, competed with each other for supremacy as India noticed the struggle and dawn of self-reliance, and her own medical system, essentially inspired by her British overlords. The booklet includes the historical perspectives of diseases and treatment in Indian society; the introduction of Indian treatments (Ayurveda); its merger with Persian treatments; the introduction of Western doctors; and lastly the practice of treatments today. Baid, Hakim & Doctors is an invaluable tool to every physician, historian, researcher, and knowledge connoisseur.
