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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 (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]
English: This is Plate 2 of four plates published in the 1907 book, An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita in Three Volumes, (Volume 1), on page LXIX of Introduction section. It represents the following yantra / surgical instruments: 15 Shamipatra yantra, 16 Shalaka 17 Sharapunka, 18 Sinhamukha, 19 Shvanamukh, 20 Shanku, 21 Snuhi, 22 ...
He reformed the treatment of gunshot wounds, rejecting the practice, common at that time, of cauterizing the wound, and ligatured blood vessels in amputated limbs. His collected works were published in 1575. He has been called the "father of modern surgery". [10] [11] [12]
The period between the 4th and 6th centuries CE is known as the Golden Age of India because of the considerable achievements that were made in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, science, religion, and philosophy, during the Gupta Empire. [9] [10] The decimal numeral system, including the concept of zero, was invented in India during this ...
Sushruta, father of plastic surgery, author of Sushruta Samhita which is one of the most important ancient medical treatise (600–500 BCE) Panini, father of linguistics (600–400 BCE) Charaka, physician (400–300 BCE)
The Gupta Empire was an Indian empire during the classical period of the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century to mid 6th century CE. At its zenith, the dynasty ruled over an empire that spanned much of the northern Indian subcontinent. [17]