[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v2.c33.19 # A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c33.19 A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c33.19 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c33.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c33.19) "And when the inflammation had gone down, and the wound had become sweet, suppose he were then to cut into it with a lancet, and burn it with caustic. And when he had cauterized it, suppose he were to prescribe an alkaline wash . . . . Now tell me, O king! would it be out of cruelty that the surgeon . . . . thus cut with the lancet and cauterized with the stick of caustic."\* - [Previous: v2.c33.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c33.18) - [Next: v2.c33.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c33.20) - [Up: v2.c33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c33) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c33.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v2.c33.19) · Pramāṇa