The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Comparative Study of the Surgical Instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the Modern European Surgeons (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Secondly, monuments or inscriptions scattered about the country have to be searched, as references found therein to the science of medicine, are more trustworthy than documents which may have been more or less tampered with by interpola tions of subsequent writers. Thus we learn from the Edicts of Asoka, that hospitals were established by him in different parts of his kingdom, not only for the treatment.

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