Hindu Medicine c8.188

c8.188

Since the methodical dissection of a well preserved corpse after the habit of modern research and training was excluded by the tabus of ancient civilization in subtropical India, one cannot but admire this ingenious way of working on a corpse without touching it,—on a corpse cleansed and decomposed at the same time by flowing water, protected by it against insects, heat and air, guarded by wrappings against fishes and worms, and concealed from men who might take offense in beholding it.