Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t8.3
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t8.3
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c7.s3.t8.3
3. With reference to the number of the teeth (*danta*) Ātreya-Charaka and Suśruta agree. Both state them correctly to number thirty-two. Ātreya-Charaka goes even so far as to count a corresponding number of sockets. Accordingly he divides either alveolar process into thirty-two alveoli, each of which is counted, in his list (§ 4), as a separate bone.