It illustrates five groups of surgical instruments, namely instruments for inspection, pincers, fleams, needles-thurma, smaller instruments such as addices, saws, knives, tubes and razors.
The Tibetan medicine divides the internal, or therapeutic treatment, and the external, surgical treatment. The external treatment can be one of three kinds: the tender one, the rough one and the severe one. The tender one includes compresses, baths, massages and inunctions. The rough one includes bloodletting, caloripuncture and piercing. The severe treatment includes such operations as dissection, amputation, scrabbling and removal.
The sheet is divided into nine lines with the images of the Tibetan doctor’s surgical instruments. The instruments used for diagnostics are depicted first, these are the set of catheters for wounds and abscesses, catheters with the holes for the rectum’s inspection. Below the last catheter in the line there is an image of a scraper knife for cutting off the hemorrhoid.
The second line has images of pliers of different shapes and purposes. They serve for removing the parts of bones, ripped blood vessels and tendons from the wounds. The sets of cutting and piercing instruments such fleams, knives, scrapers, needles, saws and borers are shown from the end of the second till the end of the fourth line.
A small tube in the beginning of the fourth lower line is a catheter for urinary tract, below is an image of a sponge for burning off the ‘dental worms’. The jars with the nozzles are nebulizers. Then we can see the instruments for cleaning the wounds, for clysma and pulling off the hydropic fluid. A line finishes with the jar used for a procedure currently known as cupping therapy. The wands made of different metals and bent at the right angle were used for cauterizing abscesses, furuncles and bleeders. The images of measuring spoons for medicaments and raspatories used for disintegrating the metals are shown at the second lower line.
The last line has an image of an eye dropping bottle, lower is an image of a wire ring with a handle to keep an eye in open position. Further goes the lancet’s holder, the hot wands’ holder, a shovel, a jar for keeping medicals and the brushes.
The text in Tibetan explaining the contents of the sheet is given in the lower part of the table.
The Tibetan medicine divides the internal, or therapeutic treatment, and the external, surgical treatment. The external treatment can be one of three kinds: the tender one, the rough one and the severe one. The tender one includes compresses, baths, massages and inunctions. The rough one includes bloodletting, caloripuncture and piercing. The severe treatment includes such operations as dissection, amputation, scrabbling and removal.
The sheet is divided into nine lines with the images of the Tibetan doctor’s surgical instruments. The instruments used for diagnostics are depicted first, these are the set of catheters for wounds and abscesses, catheters with the holes for the rectum’s inspection. Below the last catheter in the line there is an image of a scraper knife for cutting off the hemorrhoid.
The second line has images of pliers of different shapes and purposes. They serve for removing the parts of bones, ripped blood vessels and tendons from the wounds. The sets of cutting and piercing instruments such fleams, knives, scrapers, needles, saws and borers are shown from the end of the second till the end of the fourth line.
A small tube in the beginning of the fourth lower line is a catheter for urinary tract, below is an image of a sponge for burning off the ‘dental worms’. The jars with the nozzles are nebulizers. Then we can see the instruments for cleaning the wounds, for clysma and pulling off the hydropic fluid. A line finishes with the jar used for a procedure currently known as cupping therapy. The wands made of different metals and bent at the right angle were used for cauterizing abscesses, furuncles and bleeders. The images of measuring spoons for medicaments and raspatories used for disintegrating the metals are shown at the second lower line.
The last line has an image of an eye dropping bottle, lower is an image of a wire ring with a handle to keep an eye in open position. Further goes the lancet’s holder, the hot wands’ holder, a shovel, a jar for keeping medicals and the brushes.
The text in Tibetan explaining the contents of the sheet is given in the lower part of the table.
