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1.	Read the following passage. He led the stranger to a neat and clean room, with surgical instruments on its walls. He washed his face with water and the juice of a medicinal plant. He then offered him a mug of wine and began preparing for the operation. With a large leaf of a creeper brought from the garden, he measured the size of the stranger’s nose. Taking a knife and forceps from the wall, he held them over a flame and cut a strip of flesh from the stranger’s cheek. The man moaned, but the wine had numbed his senses. Now answer the following questions: 1) Where did Susruta take him to? 2) How was the room? 3) What do you think was the room used as? 4) What did Susruta do as soon as he took the man inside the room? 5) Why do you think Susruta offered him a mug of wine? 6) How did Susruta use the leaf of a creeper? 7) What did Susruta do with knife and forceps? 8) Why did Susruta cut a strip of flesh from the traveller’s check? 9) How could the traveller bear the pain of the surgery? 10) What did Susruta use wine for?
Answer» 1) Susruta took the traveller to a neat and clean room. 2) The room was neat and clean with surgical instruments on its walls. 3) I think the room was used as an operation theatre. 4) As soon as Susruta took the man inside the room he washed his face with water and the juice of a medicinal plant. 5) I think Susruta offered him a mug of wine for making his senses ‘numb’ when he was being operated on. 6) Susruta used the leaf to measure his nose. 7) Susruta used the knife and forceps to cut a strip of flesh from the stranger’s cheek. 8) Susruta wanted to use the flesh to make up the cut off nose. 9) The traveller drank a mug of wine and it numbed his senses when he was operated upon and thus he was able to bear the pain of the surgery. 10) Susruta used the wine as an anaesthesia.

Read the following passage. He led the stranger to a neat and clean room, with surgical instruments on its walls. He washed his face with water and the juice of a medicinal plant. He then offered him a mug of wine and began preparing for the operation. With a large leaf of a creeper brought from the garden, he measured the size of the stranger’s nose. Taking a knife and forceps from the wall, he held them over a flame and cut a strip of flesh from the stranger’s cheek. The man moaned, but the wine had numbed his senses. Now answer the following questions: 1) Where did Susruta take him to? 2) How was the room? 3) What do you think was the room used as? 4) What did Susruta do as soon as he took the man inside the room? 5) Why do you think Susruta offered him a mug of wine? 6) How did Susruta use the leaf of a creeper? 7) What did Susruta do with knife and forceps? 8) Why did Susruta cut a strip of flesh from the traveller’s check? 9) How could the traveller bear the pain of the surgery? 10) What did Susruta use wine for?

Answer»

1) Susruta took the traveller to a neat and clean room.

2) The room was neat and clean with surgical instruments on its walls.

3) I think the room was used as an operation theatre.

4) As soon as Susruta took the man inside the room he washed his face with water and the juice of a medicinal plant.

5) I think Susruta offered him a mug of wine for making his senses ‘numb’ when he was being operated on.

6) Susruta used the leaf to measure his nose.

7) Susruta used the knife and forceps to cut a strip of flesh from the stranger’s cheek.

8) Susruta wanted to use the flesh to make up the cut off nose.

9) The traveller drank a mug of wine and it numbed his senses when he was operated upon and thus he was able to bear the pain of the surgery.

10) Susruta used the wine as an anaesthesia.

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