6th Class Social Science What Book and Burials Tell Us

  • question_answer 17)
    How do you think Charaka found out about the human body in such great detail?  

    Answer:

    About 2000 years ago, there was a famous physician named Charaka who wrote a book on medicine known as the Charaka Samhita. There he states that the human body has 360 bones. This is a much larger number than the 200 bones that are recognised in modern anatomy Charaka arrived at this figure by counting the teeth, joints and cartilage.  


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