Modi was half-right: World's first plastic surgeon may well have been Indian (but he wasn't Shiva)

October 29, 2014 16:50

Narendra Modi could have spared himself the embarrassment if he'd put aside the epics and reached for some real Sanskrit treatises instead. Had he looked at the Sushruta Samhita,for instance, he would have found a description of one the world's first plastic surgeries by Sushruta. In his treatise, Sushruta writes about grafting a piece of skin from the cheek to the nose around 600 BC. Read

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