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Thirukkural 950

Kural 950

உற்றவன் தீர்ப்பான் மருந்துழைச் செல்வானென்று
அப்பால் நாற் கூற்றே மருந்து.

Utravan Theerppaan Marundhuzhaich Chelvaanendru
Appaal Naar Kootre Marundhu

For patient, leech, and remedies, and him who waits by patient's side, The art of medicine must fourfold code of laws provide

Meaning

Medical science consists of four parts, viz, patient, physician, medicine and compounder; and each of these (again) contains four sub-divisions.

Plain English meaning from the 19th-century prose translation by W. H. Drew and John Lazarus. The verse above is G. U. Pope's translation (1886).

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