Surgery - (Scott, Extracts of letters to J. Banks, 1790-1801)

Excerpts from Dharampalji's book Indian Science and Technology in the 18th Century (1971)

You will think the paper on putting on noses on those who have lost them in an extraordinary one. I hope to send you by the later ships some of the Indian cement for uniting animal parts.

In medicine I shall not be able to praise their science very much. It is one of those arts which is too delicate in its nature to bear war and oppression and the revolutions of governments. The effects of surgical operation are more obvious, more easily acquired and lost by no means so readily. Here I should have much to praise. They practice with great success the operation of depressing the chrystalline lens when become opaque (formation of a cataract) and from the time immemorial they have cut for the stone at the same place which they now do in Europe. These are curious facts and I believe unknown before to us.

By K. Kesava Rao
Department of Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru 560012, India
kesava@iisc.ac.in

...To be continued ...

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