Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.10
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.10
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4. As regards the eyeballs, the class-list explicitly enumerates them among the ‘tender’ bones. In agreement herewith, speaking of the structure of the eye in the Supplementary Section (*Uttara Tantra*) of his Compendium, Suśruta describes the sclerotic coat of the eyeball as made of bone (*asthi*). The statement in question, describing the eye as seen in the sagittal section (Fig. 1), runs as follows: