[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907) › c2.1 # Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c2.1 Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c2.1 - **Language:** English ### [c2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c2.1) OUR knowledge of the Medicine known to the ancient Indians is at present extremely limited. I was made painfully aware of this fact in the course of preparing my edition of the two old Indian medical tracts preserved in the well-known Bower Manuscript of the fifth century A. D. The exigencies of that edition led me to a closer study of Indian Medicine, and the present treatise on its osteological doctrines is one of the firstfruits of that study. - [Previous: c1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c1.12) - [Next: c2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c2.2) - [Up: c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c2.1) · Pramāṇa