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Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t6.16

Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t6.16

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c6.s2.t6.16

(e) It counts wrongly eight bones of the breast, and one bone of the palate, instead of seventeen and two respectively (§ 33). And these false counts, together with those named in lit. *b*, result in the wrong aggregates 117 of the bones of the trunk, and 63 of the neck and head (§ 27), instead of 128 and 66 respectively.