title: Two French pioneer historians of Indian medicine.
abstract: This text constitutes a summary of the author's recent book on Gustave Lietard (1833 - 1904) and Palmyr Cordier (1871 - 1914), the first historians of Ayurveda in France. In this book, their writings are reprinted and analysed in a long introduction of Ayurvedic historiography.
authors.affiliation: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.
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authors.lastname: Rosu