Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c5.s1.53

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A very much later author, who also reproduces Suśruta's doctrine on the skeleton, and who will be mentioned occasionally in the following pages, is Bhāva Miśra. He lived in the sixteenth century, and wrote a voluminous compilation, of no originality, from previous medical writings, under the name of *Bhāva Prakāśa* (i. e. Manifestation of the Truth).