Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t10.16

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¹ These chapters profess to give Suśruta’s system of medicine. But there is very little distinctly Suśrutiyan to be found in them; nor, for that matter, anything more distinctly Charakiyan. A good test case is the half-verse 8, on p. 29, in chapter 278, which agrees with neither Charaka (ed. 1896, p. 479) nor Suśruta (p. 824) nor Vāgbhaṭa. On the other hand, two verses (13 and 14 on p. 35 in chapter 279) of an incantation are found also in Suśruta (*Sūtra Sthāna*, 44th *adhyāya*, p. 160).