A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.176

v2.c33.176

282 These two methods (pulling the arrow back or pushing it through) are also known in other cultural areas; see G. Majno, 1975: 512, n.52; compare Celsus, De medicina 7.5 (this is the earliest extant text from classical antiquity on the subject); compare chapter ninety-four of Albucasis (ed. and transl. by M.S. Spink and G.L. Lewis, 1973: 608–623). G. Majno (1975: 271–272) remarks that the ruse of shielding the barbs of an arrow and easing