Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.t1.5
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.t1.5
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4. All these cases are examples of the multiplication of bones; but the opposite process of unification also occurs. Here a number of bones is counted as a single bone, either from deference to an older or popular theory, or because they were thought to constitute a peculiar unity. Conspicuous examples are the bones of the carpus and tarsus (§ 49), and, in Suśruta’s system, the ankle-bones (§ 52).