Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c2.4

c2.4

¹ The only mention of an animal subject is in connexion with training in surgery. Thus ‘puncturing’ is to be practised by the medical pupil ‘on the veins of dead animals and on the stalks of the water-lily’; similarly, ‘extracting,’ on the pulp of various kinds of fruit and ‘on the teeth of dead animals’.