Madhusudan Gupta
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Madhusudan Gupta had significant contribution to the history of Calcutta Medical College (CMC) and hospital. During the prima stage of medical college, Indian students were not coming to join the course partly because they were from aristocratic Indian families who had disdain for surgery
(reluctant to touch the dead body
) and partly because the Ayurvedic and Unani
systems of medicine were popular at that time. He was a Sanskrit
scholar and Ayurvedic doctor and he did proclaim that he will dissect
the dead body and that created waves among the people and after that many came to join the medical education at CMC. The British government fired 50 cannon shot to honour him. The government was happy because they broke past the custom thought prevailing there to some extent which in fact went against "The Native Medical Institution (NMI)" which was practicing Ayurvedic and Unani medicine culture without any scientific basis. He was one among the first batch of students passed from the CMC.
Surgery
Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...
(reluctant to touch the dead body
Cadaver
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) and partly because the Ayurvedic and Unani
Unani
Unani-tibb or Unani Medicine also spelled Yunani Medicine means "Greek Medicine", and is a form of traditional medicine widely practiced in South Asia...
systems of medicine were popular at that time. He was a Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
scholar and Ayurvedic doctor and he did proclaim that he will dissect
Dissection
Dissection is usually the process of disassembling and observing something to determine its internal structure and as an aid to discerning the functions and relationships of its components....
the dead body and that created waves among the people and after that many came to join the medical education at CMC. The British government fired 50 cannon shot to honour him. The government was happy because they broke past the custom thought prevailing there to some extent which in fact went against "The Native Medical Institution (NMI)" which was practicing Ayurvedic and Unani medicine culture without any scientific basis. He was one among the first batch of students passed from the CMC.