Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s3.66

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² Cf., Jīvaka's masterful surgery: once he made the man, who was suffering from some head-disease, lie down on his bed, tied him fast to the bed, cut through the skin of the head, drew apart the flesh on each side of the incision, pulled two worms out, and then closed up the he cut through the skin of the belly, drew the twisted intestines out, disentangled them, put them back aright, stitched the skin and anointed it with salve: Mahāvagga VIII, 1, 18; 22.