Surgical Instruments of the Hindus

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.