Indian Medical Science - Ayurveda can claim its legitimate place among all other systems of medicine known to the world. But its glory and greatness is due neither to the progress in Surgery or Anatomy as taught by Sushruta nor to the excellence of herbal drugs as taught by Caraka but to the exceptional and unique progress which Ayurveda made in the region of medical chemistry.There were four different schools of treatment of diseases in ancient India, viz., ...