[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Hindu Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948) › c7.229 # Hindu Medicine c7.229 Hindu Medicine c7.229 - **Language:** English ### [c7.229](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c7.229) Another lesson in store for him is concerned with the handling of the equipment of surgery. There are twenty kinds of knives and sharp needles (śastra), and more than a hundred other implements needed during operations, including the instruments for dressing to protect wounds against infections: twenty-four pincers and forceps (svastika), two tongs (samdaṃśa), two hooks (tāla), twenty tubular instruments, catheters (nāḍī), and so forth, thirty probes (śalākā), twenty-six articles of dressing; cloth, thread, and similar utensils (upayantra).¹⁵ - [Previous: c7.228](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c7.228) - [Next: c7.230](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c7.230) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c7.229](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c7.229) · Pramāṇa