Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c10.16

c10.16

§ 36. Dissection :— Some sort of dissection is mentioned only in Su 3.5. A surgeon who desires to obtain a definite knowledge of human body, should properly clean a body in order to learn to know the position of the organs. The dead body to be selected for this purpose should be of a man with complete limbs, who did not die of poison or of a protracted disease (on account of the morbid changes of the body resulting thereby-Ḍallaṇa), or was of over age. Having removed all excremental matter from the entrails, the body should be placed in a cage fast tied (so that it may not flow off by the current -Ḍallaṇa) in not a rapid current after wrapping it with rush or bast or Kuśa grass or hemp (so that it may not be devoured by fish and other animals in water-Ḍallaṇa) in a covered place (where it would be safe from the attacks of birds of prey-Ḍallaṇa). There the body should be allowed to decompose. When, after seven days, it is thoroughly