Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s3.t1.2

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‘In the body there are three hundred and sixty bones. Of these there are one hundred and forty in the extremities; one hundred and twenty in the trunk, and one hundred in the head. That is to say, in each lower limb there are five nails; three bones in each toe, aggregating fifteen; five long bones with one bone to support them; two bones each in the cluster, ankle, and leg; and one bone each in the heel, knee, and thigh. All these, nails and bones, exist also in the upper limbs exactly as in the lower. There are twenty-four ribs, and just as many sockets and tubercles. There are thirty bones in the back, eight in the breast, one each in the pubes and sacrum; two in the two hips, and as many severally in the collar-bones, shoulder-peaks (*aṃsa*), and shoulder-blades, as well as in the windpipe (*jatru*) and palate jointly; thirteen in the neck; four in the windpipe (*kaṇṭhanāḍī*); and two in the jaws. There are thirty-two teeth, and as many sockets. There are three bones in the nose, and six in the cranium.’