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To reject the valuable contribution of surgical art is to neglect human knowledge of anatomy and human capacity to co-operate with Nature. Thousands of years ago, a gifted Hindu writer and medico even acclaimed it in these words: "Surgery is the first and highest division of the healing art, least liable to fallacy." Exaggerated, perhaps, but it is certain that the ancient Hindus knew and practised a well-developed form of this art--even including plastic surgery--but it mysteriously disappeared in the course of time. The successive foreign invasions and their massacres of intellectuals may have had something to do with it.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 36