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Brain Cancer Plastic Surgery In Vedic India

Several types of knives and needles have been described depending upon their use and tissues concerned.

He taught his pupils how to make incisions on the abdomen by using a pumpkin for demonstration purposes. It is believed that the following ingenious method for suturing the severed ends of intestine was employed.

The cut ends of the intestine were apposed to each other and big black ants, collected specifically for this purpose were made to bite the apposed ends and their heads severed when their pincers had closed. T

hus the pincers remained 'in situ' due to rigor mortis retaining the cut ends of the intestine in apposition for some time.

The heads and the pincers of the ants being organic matter got digested in due course of time, not unlike the catgut of the present day surgery.

His works were translated into Arabic by the 8th century A.D. and called " Kitab-i- Susrud ".

There is adequate evidence that in ancient India, anatomical study of the human body was carried out.

Surgeons ‘Leave Things Inside The Patient’ 4000 a Year

I have seen surgeons administering Anesthesia when the patient suffered a Lung related disease and could not stand a particular anesthetic for they never referred the History of the patient.

There are cases where a wrong part is operated upon..

The instance quoted in the article is peanuts for us in India.

.Patients in India or their relieves need to be more vigilant in Hospitals and should demand to know the Surgical Procedure, Anesthesia to be used, and check for any abnormality after the surgical procedure and react immediately without standing on form of Behavior or fear of reprimand by the Hospital or the doctor.