A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.177

v2.c33.177

the arrowhead back out was apparently not yet known. He adds in a note (512, n.55) that Suśruta does not mention a gadget of this kind; he finds it difficult to believe that the ancient Hindus, so familiar with arrow wounds, did not invent something like the spoon of Diocles. G. Mukhopadhyaya (1913: 110), however, does mention two such instruments, called pañcamukha and trimukha, described in the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya.