THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE - THE SEED AND THE SOIL (A CRITICAL DISCUSSION WITH AYURVEDIC AND MODERN CONCEPT)

Abstract

There seems to be a general idea that the germ theory of disease which plays so important a part in modern medicine is not known to Ayurveda, I propose to examine the question at a little length as great importance seems to be attached to it in certain scientific circle; my argument will be that it is not true to say that the germ theory of causation of certain diseases was not known to Ayurveda, and that what is true that it did not and does not, occupy in Ayurveda the all-important position which it does in modern medicine.