Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s4.22

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8. *Continuation.* But further, the principle of counting is no less confused. Suśruta counted the bones of the breast on a principle different from that on which he counted the bones of the neck and back (that is, of the whole spine). The breast he counted by taking it to consist of a median bone (*sternum*), giving off an equal number of branch bones (*costal cartilages*)