India, March 10 -- ALIGARH : Mr Maxime Udayan Saleur, Research Scholar from the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), Paris-Saclay, France, visited the Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, where he interacted with postgraduate students and faculty members during an academic session focusing on the history of medicine.

During the interaction, Mr Saleur shared his research on the historical development of medicine in India, particularly the evolution and preservation of indigenous medical systems such as Ayurveda and Unani. He discussed how, during the colonial period, scholars and practitioners of these systems worked together to safeguard the identity and institutional space of traditional medi...