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Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s7.t2.6

Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s7.t2.6

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c7.s7.t2.6

In particular, just as there are in the leg (the three vital spots) ankle-bone, knee-cap, and ischio-pubic arch, so there are in the arm (the three) wrist-bone, elbow-pan, and collar-bone. Just as between the hip-bone and scrotum there is the ischio-pubic arch, so between the breast-bone and the arm-pit there is the clavicular arch.