Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.t2.3

c7.t2.3

‘No accurate account of any part of the body, including even its skin, can be rendered without a knowledge of anatomy. Hence any one who wishes to acquire a thorough knowledge of anatomy must prepare a dead body, and carefully examine all its parts. For it is only by combining both direct ocular observation and the information of text-books that thorough knowledge is obtained. For this purpose one should select a body which is complete in all its parts. It should also be the body of a person who was not excessively old, nor who died