Hindu Medicine c8.186

c8.186

This accurate account of the parts of the body, extending as far as the skin, is not to be found in any other part of medical teaching, but only in the doctrine of surgery. Therefore the surgeon in seeking a thoroughly reliable knowledge must duly prepare a dead body and carefully ascertain its parts. For by putting together what he perceives with his own eyes with what he has learned from valid tradition through textbooks, he will increase his wisdom.