Amazing India: Ancient Indian Orthopedics Still Survives! | Art of Living While the modern term orthopaedics came into existence around 1741, based on the book by the same name Orthopedie, by Nicholas Andry, India has known fracture care for ages. Described in detail in the works of ancient India’s greatest surgeon, Susrutha, it can be found practiced in the same manner by the “Puttur Bone Setters” of Rachapalem, a village near Puttur, 35 kms south […]