Abstract

MEDICO HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF SUSHRUTA- THE FATHER OF SURGERY

*Dr. Hemanta Panigrahi, Dr. Srinibash Sahoo and Dr. Bharti

Abstract

In India curative periods and healing mantras preceded the birth of Modern medicine. Bhisag Atharvan was the 1st man who treateds the patients. In the Rigveda there exists descriptions of surgeries like legs were surgically removed and replaced with iron nails, injured eyes were removed out, and arrow shafts were taken out from the limbs of the Aryan soldiers. It suggests that many difficult surgical operations were successfully performed at that time. Among eight branch of Ayurveda Shalya Tantra is most important branch. Sushruta samhita Samhita is the main book where we get the descriptions of Surgery. This manuscript is well organised to give information to medical readers, particularly those from a surgical background. The detail description of the progression of surgical procedures from prehistoric times to the present day is placed in this paper.

Keywords: Shalya, Ayurveda, Surgery, Sushruta, Rig veda, sandhan karma.