Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s7.t3.78

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(2) Now, further on, we shall describe in detail (the vital spots) occurring from the neck upwards. In that region, in the windpipe there are four *dhamanī*, &c., and in the cervical column there are four blood-vessels, &c. . . . . . Thus, these thirty-seven vital spots which occur from the neck upwards have been described.