[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body # Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body Bone counts and nomenclature in Atharvaveda, Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, Caraka, Suśruta, Vāgbhaṭa, Bhela; textual history of the Saṃhitās; comparison with Greek anatomy. - **Language:** English - **Date:** 1841–1918 CE - **Author:** [A. F. Rudolf Hoernle](https://indike.org/pramana/person/hoernle) - **Extent:** 1,714 passages, 81,572 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · Oxford: Clarendon Press 1907; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (A. F. Rudolf Hoernle †1918); published before 1931:… ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c1) — 10 parts - [c2 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c2) — 13 parts - [c3 Note](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c3) — 17 parts - [c4 List of Illustrations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c4) — 4 parts - [c5 Section I. Introduction: Medical Schools, Chronology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c5) — 19 parts - [c6 Section II. Text-Critical. The Records](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c6) — 4 parts - [c7 Section III. Anatomical Identifications](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c7) — 10 parts - [c8 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c8) — 334 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907) · Pramāṇa