Hindu Medicine c8.189

c8.189

Unfortunately the time for inspection was necessarily very limited. The results to be gained by this sort of gently scrubbing asunder a soaked body on the verge of melting away, were, to weigh advantages and disadvantages, exactly what one would expect from such an examination of an object, preserved and decomposing at the same time: an almost perfect osteology, based on the bony structure left intact for unlimited inspection; a fair enumerative knowledge of the muscles, sinews and ligaments still sufficiently preserved; but no real insight into the intricacies of the nervous system, the blood vessels, or into the exact course and purpose of the various other canals and organs essential for metabolism.