Antiquity. Medicine prosperity

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Pjan Chiao possessed huge knowledge and simultaneously in an everyday life was rather modest and unpretentious person. It has spent the most part of a life on continuous travel on the country, helping patients to get rid of illnesses. Wherever there was Pjan Chiao, he was met yours faithfully and pleasure. This circumstance has caused to it hostility some doctors, which have sent hired killers to eliminate the dangerous competitor.

Pjan Chiao has made much for prosperity of the people and domestic medicine. Therefore in China his name uses huge honour. In a province of Hubej, Pjan Chiao whence come, at mountain Chiao bottom the temple devoted to the great doctor is constructed.

At ancient Indians of representation about a human body also were rather confused though they and had possibility to obtain data closer to true as in India was absent will lock to open the dead. However, a corpse it was possible to open only under certain conditions - only a corpse of the person of not too old, deprived any uglinesses and the mutilations, not suffering with any long illness and not victim from a poisoning, to put it briefly, a corpse who promised to give a normal anatomic picture. It should lie in the beginning seven days in a stream, then from it by means of a bark erased a skin until there were convenient for a review bodies being under it.

Not doctrine about a body structure, and rather funny anatomic statistics became Result of such researches, however. Ancient Indians believed that the person consists of seven covers, three hundred bones, three liquids, nine hundred sheaves and ninety veins beginning at nails. The most ancient images in the well-known cave temples in Ellore, the Elephant and Adzhante also testify that Indians did not have any representation about muscles of a human body.