Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.27

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The statement of Dr. Wise (*Hindu System of Medicine*, p. 52) that ‘the difference [between Suśruta’s total 300 and Charaka’s total 360] is owing to their counting the cartilages with the bones’ is hardly correct. Both writers include cartilages in their counts, though in different ways. The difference in their totals is mainly due to Charaka’s counting the thirty-two sockets of the teeth as separate bones, and his including the twenty nails, neither of which are admitted in the count of Suśruta. See § 38, col. IV in the Table (p. 93).