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Bhisagratna also asserted that Sushruta was the name of the clan to which Vishvamitra belonged. [14] In Chapter 7 of the five-volume History of Indian Medical Literature, published in 1999, physician-scholar Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld covers a variety of theories on Suśruta's identity and the Sushruta Samhita's publication history. [15]
The Sushruta Samhita is best known in non-specialist sources on medical history for its approach and discussions of surgery. [40] It is amongst the first medical treatises in history to suggest that a student of surgery should learn about human body and its organs by systematically examining a dead body. [ 128 ]
Sushruta (IAST: Suśruta), the purported author of the Sanskrit-language Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), has been called the father of surgery [1] Dating the Sushruta Samhita has been a matter of debate, but a partial manuscript has been dated to 878 CE. [2]
Sushruta (c. 600 BCE) [25] is considered as the "founding father of surgery". His period is usually placed between the period of 1200 BC – 600 BC. [26] One of the earliest known mention of the name is from the Bower Manuscript where Sushruta is listed as one of the ten sages residing in the Himalayas. [27]
Couching was practised in ancient India and subsequently introduced to other countries by the Indian physician Sushruta (c. 6th century BCE), [1] who described it in his work Sushruta Samhita ("Compendium of Sushruta"); the work's Uttaratantra section [a] describes an operation in which a curved needle was used to push the opaque "phlegmatic ...
Sushruta was a physician who made contributions to the field of plastic and cataract surgery in the 6th century BC. [ 11 ] The Roman scholar Aulus Cornelius Celsus recorded surgical techniques, including plastic surgery, in the 1st century AD.
According to the Mahabharata, Sushruta, the father of plastic surgery, was one of his sons. [34] Ashtaka, who was born from Madhavi, was successor to his kingdom. [35] [36] Shakuntala was born from the damsel Menaka. She was the mother of Bharata, who became a powerful emperor as well as an ancestor of Kuru kings. [37] [38]
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