Ayurvedic medicine. A surgeon, sitting on the floor, attends to a patient's leg as he lies on a bed. Gouache, circa 1825. Ayurvedic medicine is a system of Hindu traditional medicine. The oldest known Ayurvedic texts are the Susrutha Samhita and the Charaka Samhita.

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