Nirodbaran

Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

3. Matters Medical

Medicine as Science

When a medicine is a specific, it is scientifically supposed to be active on one particular disease and therefore quite successful.

It is not enough for a medicine to be a specific. Certain drugs have other effects or possible effects which can be ignored by the physician who only wants to cure his case, but cannot be in a whole-view of the system and its reactions. The unfavourable reactions of quinine are admitted by medical opinion itself and doctors in Europe have been long searching for a substitute for quinine.

04.01.1936