Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c3.4

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c3.4

The Talmudic osteology does not, like the Indian, divide the body into three, but into two parts; namely, (1) the trunk, inclusive of the four extremities, and (2) the neck and head. The trunk, again, is divided, (1) sagittally, into the two sides, right and left; and (2) coronally, into the back and the front. Hence arises the subjoined scheme:

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