Hindu Achievements in Exact Science: A Study in the History of Scientific Development c20.s1.3

c20.s1.3

The additional 100 in Sushruta’s count, however, has to be explained. This large excess is principally due to the fact that, like Charaka, he regarded the cartilages and the prominent parts of bones (the modern “processes” and “protuberances”) as if they were separate bones.²³ In Europe the first *correct* description of the osseous system was given by Vesalius in 1543.