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Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.t3.1

Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.t3.1

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c7.t3.1

1. The subjoined comparative table, setting side by side the system of Modern Anatomy and the systems of Ātreya-Charaka and Suśruta, as well as the skeleton shown in Figs. 4 and 5, may serve as a guide to the detailed identification of bones discussed in the succeeding paragraphs. Column I on Modern Anatomy is based on Dr. Samuel O. L. Potter’s *Compend of Human Anatomy* (5th ed., 1893), pp. 9, 10; column II on §§ 4, 7; and column III on § 34.