Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.2

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In the first place, the list is incomplete. It omits two of the most conspicuous bones of the skeleton, namely, the shoulder-blades (*aṃsa-phalaka*, No. 16 of Charaka’s list in § 4). It also omits the two eyeballs (*akṣi-kośa*). In omitting these two items Suśruta’s list, as it stands in the Traditional Recension, is inconsistent with another statement of his. Immediately following the list of bones in which Suśruta enumerates them according to their position in the body, he continues with another list dividing the bones into five classes according to their shape. This class-list (Original Text in §§ 88, 89) runs as follows: