Sushruta

…For instance, in the 5th century CE, Sushruta, the famous surgeon from ancient India, described how he treated amputated noses by taking a flap of skin from the forehead and then later the butt and then grafting it over the nose wound.…

…The Sushruta Samhita, one of the foundational texts of Ayurvedic surgery, described different forms of the condition depending on which direction the body contracted and which muscle groups were most severely affected, a classification system that parallels the Greek distinctions between tetanos, opisthotonos and emprosthotonos with a precision that is eith…

…The texts attributed to the physicians Sushruta and Charaka, compiled in their current form sometime around the first millennium CE, though drawing on much older oral and written traditions, described a condition called Danustamba, which……