Department of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.
World Neurosurg. 2011 Feb;75(2):320-3. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2010.09.007.
The Golden Age of surgery in ancient India rests largely on the shoulders of Susruta, who lived sometime between 700 and 600 B.C. Susruta practiced and propagated the art of surgery at the University of Benares in that ancient city, located on the banks of the holy Ganges. His monumental treatise on surgery, Susruta Samhita, glorified him as the Father of Indian Surgery. He was the first to systematize "surgery" into two distinct "fields," including, in essence, what we know today as the field of neurosurgery. The present article elucidates the contributions of this great surgeon from a neurosurgeon's perspective.
古印度的外科医学黄金时代主要归功于苏斯拉塔（Susruta），他生活在公元前 700 年至 600 年之间。苏斯拉塔在位于恒河岸边的贝拿勒斯大学（Benares）行医并传播外科医学艺术。他的外科医学巨著《苏斯拉塔本集》（Susruta Samhita）将他誉为印度外科医学之父。他是第一个将“外科手术”系统地分为两个截然不同的“领域”的人，其中包括我们今天所知的神经外科学领域。本文从神经外科医生的角度阐述了这位伟大外科医生的贡献。
