How many of the following statements regarding medicine and related practices in medieval India is/are correct? 1. Indian medicine of the Graeco-Arabic tradition (Tibb-i-Yunani) was almost identical in its practice with contemporary Persian medicine. 2. Harvey's discovery of the circulation of blood was explained to a scholarly noble by European traveller Francois Bernier. 3. The practice of smallpox inoculation was described in contemporary Yunani and Ayurvedic texts.

Statement 1 is correct: the Tibb-i-Yunani system practised in medieval India was largely the same as the contemporary Persian (and broader Islamic-world) Graeco-Arabic medical tradition. Statement 2 is correct: François Bernier, a French physician-traveller in Mughal India, is recorded to have explained William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of blood to the scholar-noble Danishmand Khan. Statement 3 is incorrect: although smallpox inoculation (variolation) was practised in India, it is not described in the classical Yunani and Ayurvedic medical texts. Hence two statements are correct.