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Through the mists of time: Sushrutha, an enigma revisited
Sushrutha had been viewed in textbooks of plastic surgery as belonging to the caste of potters who performed surgery in India. We have examined the available source documents and other references to the technology of the period to examine this assertion and are convinced that there is no evidence to...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845368/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368861 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59285 |
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| author | Puthumana, Philip Philip |
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| description | Sushrutha had been viewed in textbooks of plastic surgery as belonging to the caste of potters who performed surgery in India. We have examined the available source documents and other references to the technology of the period to examine this assertion and are convinced that there is no evidence to support this. The period, technology and geographic references in Sushrutha Samhitha are correlated with settled positions on these to arrive at an understanding of the time and knowledge which is described. Source of erroneous interpretation of Sushrutha as a potter is also examined and clarified. |
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| spelling | pubmed-28453682010-04-05 Through the mists of time: Sushrutha, an enigma revisited Puthumana, Philip Philip Indian J Plast Surg Reflections Sushrutha had been viewed in textbooks of plastic surgery as belonging to the caste of potters who performed surgery in India. We have examined the available source documents and other references to the technology of the period to examine this assertion and are convinced that there is no evidence to support this. The period, technology and geographic references in Sushrutha Samhitha are correlated with settled positions on these to arrive at an understanding of the time and knowledge which is described. Source of erroneous interpretation of Sushrutha as a potter is also examined and clarified. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2845368/ /pubmed/20368861 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59285 Text en © Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| spellingShingle | Reflections Puthumana, Philip Philip Through the mists of time: Sushrutha, an enigma revisited |
| title | Through the mists of time: Sushrutha, an enigma revisited |
| title_full | Through the mists of time: Sushrutha, an enigma revisited |
| title_fullStr | Through the mists of time: Sushrutha, an enigma revisited |
| title_full_unstemmed | Through the mists of time: Sushrutha, an enigma revisited |
| title_short | Through the mists of time: Sushrutha, an enigma revisited |
| title_sort | through the mists of time: sushrutha, an enigma revisited |
| topic | Reflections |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845368/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368861 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.59285 |
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