What is Ancient Indian Surgery Series?
Ayurveda is the ancient Indian medical system, about 2500 years old. It was written in Sanskrit. It is mainly available in the form of three major treatises— Caraka Samhita, a book on medicine, Suéruta Samhita, a book on surgery and Vagbhat Samhita, a mixed and later work. Many other concise treatises and monograms were written later.
Ancient Indian Surgery series in-12 volumes (10 volumes of the text and 2 supplementary volumes on drugs and synopsis) of more than 5000 pages is the only authentic, scientific, research oriented, English syntax interpretation of Susruta Sarhhita. The collaborative work has been carried out by the surgeons, physicians and scholars, mostly from the Institute of Medical Sciences (both modern and Ayurvedic wings ), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India during the last 14 years.
What is Ophthalmic and Otorhinolaryngological Considerations in Ancient Indian Surgery?
Susruta Samhita consists of six cantos. The last one, Uttara-tantra, deals in its first third (26 chapters) with Salakya-tantra or the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and the head ; these form the basis of Ophthalmological and Otorhinolaryngological Considerations in Ancient Indian Surgery.