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Sushruta wrote the Sushruta Samhita as an instruction manual for physicians to treat their patients holistically. Disease, he claimed (following the precepts of Charaka ), was caused by imbalance in the body, and it was the physician's duty to help others maintain balance or to restore it if it had been lost.
The first complete English translation of the Sushruta Samhita was by Kaviraj Kunjalal Bhishagratna, who published it in three volumes between 1907 and 1916 (reprinted 1963, 2006). [150] [note 1] An English translation of both the Sushruta Samhita and Dalhana's commentary was published in three volumes by P. V. Sharma in 1999. [151]
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 ...
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Polyuria in diabetes was associated with a sweet taste in Sanskrit texts of the 5th/6th century BC, at the time of two notable physicians Sushruta and Charaka. [8] They described several diseases of polyuric nature collectively called Prameha ("to flow").