Medical sciences were also widely studied under the Gupta age. The Indian surgeons were well versed in the art of dissection, plastic surgery, veterinary surgery and even in such specialised branches of surgery as that of eye, ear and nose. The great medical writer of this period was Vagbhata. He wrote Astangasangrah which is a systematic summary of Charaka and Shruta. Palakapya wrote Hastyaayurveda, a treatise on the diseases peculiar to elephants and their treatment.