Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.12
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.12
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¹ *Paṭala* denotes the protecting covers of the *dṛṣṭi*, or pupil, the supposed seat of vision. The composite nature (the ‘tunics’, incl. retina, choroid) of the 4th cover does not seem to have been known to the early Indian anatomists; nor the lens, which they thought to be a morbid accumulation of phlegm.