Question

Who is Sushrata?

Answer 1

Hint: He resided in the ancient city of Kashi, now known in the northern part of India as Varanasi, or Banaras. He wrote the Sushruta Samhita, an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery, and the survival of the ancient world is one of the most significant such treatises on this subject.

Complete answer:
-Sushruta, or Suśruta, was an ancient Indian doctor known for its pioneering procedures and techniques and for its influential treatise 'Sushruta Samhita' or Compendium of Sushruta.
-Anyone who wishes to develop a detailed knowledge of anatomy must, according to Sushruta, arrange a dead body and study and study all its parts carefully.
-He is famous for inventing and improving surgical procedures as the "Father of Indian Medicine" and "Father of Plastic Surgery."
-The etiology of more than 1,100 diseases, the use of hundreds of medicinal plants and guidelines for conducting surgical procedures, including three forms of skin grafts and nose reconstruction, were recorded by Sushruta Samhita.
-The first written account of a forehead flap rhinoplasty, a procedure still used today to repair a nose, is provided by Sushruta's treatise. To shape a new nose, he used a flap of skin from the forehead, called a pedicle.
- The concepts of traction, manipulation, apposition, stabilization, and postoperative physiotherapy were stated by him.
- Steps to induce the growth of missing hair and removal of excess hair were also recommended by Sushruta.

Note:
In medieval India, Sushruta brought surgery to admirable heights and the period was later known in ancient India as the 'Golden Age of Surgery'. Sushruta's genius caused eminent surgeon Allen Whipple to declare, all in all, Sushruta must be considered the pre-medieval period's greatest surgeon.
Hessler wrote the first European translation of Sushruta Samhita in Latin and Muller in German in the early 19th century; Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna published the full English literature in three volumes in Calcutta in 1907.