who is super surgeon?

 Sushruta considers as 'Father of Indian Medicine' and 'Father of Plastic Surgery'. And I proudly consider him as world’s super surgeon

He was an excellent surgeon in 600 BCE. he wrote a book on medicine and surgery

His book 'Sushruta Samhita' one of the world's earliest works on medicine and surgery. He was an excellent surgeon in 600 BCE. he wrote a book on medicine and surgery

His book 'Sushruta Samhita' one of the world's earliest works on medicine and surgery.

Sushrutha known for his pioneering operations and techniques and for his influential treatise ‘Sushruta-samhita’, the main source of knowledge about surgery in ancient India.

After knowing his excellency in surgery, you will have inspired by ancient Indians advancement in field of medicine and surgery.

He lived in the ancient city of Kashi, now known as Varanasi or Banaras in the state Uttara Pradesh.

• • Sushruta Samhita, one of the most outstanding treatises in Indian medical literature, describes the ancient tradition of surgery in India. 
  • Sushruta commented on diabetes, referring to it as madhumeha in Sanskrit language and it is mentioned in ancient birch bark medical treatise Bower Manuscript discovered in Kuchar (present day China), dated around AD 450, and preserved in Bodleian Library in Oxford.
  • Around AD 360-350 the Buddhist scholar Vasubandhu revised and rewrote the original text in simplified language.
  • Sushruta Samhita was translated into Arabic as Kitab-Shaw Shoon-a-Hindi and Kitab-i-Susrud in the eighth century A.D on orders of the Caliph Mansur (A.D.753 -774).
  • The first European translations were published by Hessler into Latin and by Muller into German in the early 19th century.
  • The first complete English translation was done by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna in three volumes in 1907 at Calcutta.

Sushruta developed surgical techniques for reconstructing noses, earlobes and genitalia, many amputated as religious, criminal, or military punishment.

He developed the forehead flap rhinoplasty procedure that remains contemporary plastic surgical practice; also the otoplastic technique for reconstructing an earlobe with skin from the cheek.

In Sushruta Samhita he describes the free-graft rhinoplasty

The famous Indian Rhinoplasty (reproduced in the October 1794 issue of the Gentleman’s Magazine of London) is a modification of the ancient Rhinoplasty described by Sushruta in 600 B.C. Even today pedicle forehead flap is referred to as the Indian flap. 

Regarding anaesthesia Sushruta wrote “Wine should be used before operation to produce insensibility to pain. The patient who has been fed, does not faint, and he who is rendered intoxicated, does not feel the pain of the operation.”

Sushruta is considered to be the first surgeon to have removed cataracts, describing varieties of cataracts along with the depression method of couching by the anterior root.

"A.O. Whipple in his The Story of Wound Healing Repair wrote “All in all Sushruta must be considered the greatest surgeon of the pre medieval period"

 Ancient surgical science was known as Salya-tantra. Salya-tantra (surgical science)

 For Sushruta, the concept of shalya tantra (surgical science) was all-encompassing. Examples of some of his ground-breaking operations include rhinoplasty (the repairing or remaking of a nose), removal of a dead foetus, and lithotomy (surgical incision into hollow organs such as the urinary bladder to remove stones, or calculi). He also developed many unique and practical techniques to dissect the human body and study its structure.

The Sushruta-samhita also provides details on toxicology, paediatrics, pharmacology, and other branches of the traditional system of Indian medicine known as Ayurveda.

Our ancient people were intellectually very rich, whole world can inspire from their excellency.