alleryAccording to the Sushruta Samhita, how should a surgery student learn about the human body?
AExamining a dead body
BReading verses only
CWatching live animals
DCopying from drawings
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Examining a dead body
1. The text is among the first medical treatises to give advice on surgical training.
2. It suggests studying the body and organs by systematically examining a dead body.
3. Practice was also done on objects resembling diseased body parts.
_Source: Wikipedia, Sushruta Samhita, Surgery_
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