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Sushruta

Let’s dive into the life of Sushruta, the ancient Indian surgeon whose brilliance still echoes in modern medicine. Imagine a bustling city in ancient India, around 600 BCE, where a young man named Sushruta is about to change the world of healing forever. This isn’t just a dry biography—it’s a story of curiosity, grit, and […]

Sushruta

While almost everyone practising surgery in India and indeed around the world recognises the pioneering contributions of Sushruta towards establishing surgery as an invaluable modality of treatment and often refer to him as the ‘Father of surgery’, his earliest contributions in the field of anatomy have not attracted similar attention. The fact that in his […]

Sushruta

http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/india_contribution/medicine.html Sushruta was an ancient Indian surgeon (who was possibly born in 7th century BC) and is the author of the book Sushruta Samhita, in which he describes over 120 surgical instruments, 300 surgical procedures and classifies human surgery in 8 categories. In the Sushruta school, the first person to expound yurvedic knowledge was Dhanvantari […]