An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. I: Sutrasthanam — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1907)
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Clinical Observations : — Cliracteristic features of a long lived or short lived man, or of one with an average duration of life — Physical temperaments and dimensions of the limbs and members of the body — Curable, incurable or suppressible diseases — Sympathetic and Primary diseases — Different kinds of digestive capacity — Three stages of man — Relative preponderance of Vayu, Pittam and Kapham during different stages of life — Classification of countries according to their physical features ... 308 — 328
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Miscellaneous remedies for swellings : — Piasters for establishing suppuration in swellings — Plasters for bursting, pressing out the pus from, or asepsising swellings — Aseptic pastes — Fumigating compounds—Healing pastes — Compounds which favour granulation in, or destroy the supergrowths around an ulcer ... ... 329 — 335
CHAPTER XXXVn.
Destructive traits of the different kinds of soil commended for the growth or culture of medicinal herbs : — Examination of the soil from which medicinal drugs are to be gathered — Examination of drugs — IMode of collecting drugs — Commendable traits in a room to be used as a drug-store ... ... ... 336 — 341
CHAPTER XXXVni.
A General Classification o^rdf^?'^- according to tl^eir therapeuumer^^ II ^ yU'irty seven different groups of
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CHAPTER XXXIX.
Drugs possessed of cathartic or soothing effects : — EmeticsPurgatives — Drugs possessed of lirith emetic and purgutive properties — ^.Errliines — Drugs whicli respectively soothe the der inged Vayu, Pittaiu and Kaphaui — Mode of administering medicines.,. 358 — 363
CHAPTER XL,
Drugs and their flavours, virtues, potencies, and chemical actions : — Disquisitions as regards the primary importance of drugs, or their flavours, potency', or chemical reaction in respect of curing diseases — Causes of different kinds of digestion — Conclusion as regards the primary importance of drugs in curing a disease ... ... ... • ... ... 364 — 374
CHAPTER XLI.
Specific properties of drugs : — Classification of drugs according to the preponderance of the virtues of elemental matter in them — Characteristic features of drugs of dominant earth matter, etc. — Periodicity of drug action — Reasons why purgative drugs move the bowels — Factors which lead to the aggravation or subsidence of the deranged Vayu, Pittam and Kapham— Potency of drugs... 375 — 381
CHAPTER XLII.
Specific properties of flavours :— Reasons for the classification of ff a voms— Relation of the elemental earth matter with the flavours —Reasons for the primary derangement of Vayu, Pittam, etc— Symptoms and aggravating factors of the deranged Vayu, Pittam and Kapham— Virtues of the different kinds of ^iavour, such as sweet, etc.— Enumeration of groups of ~ * drugs, etc.— Sixty-three different combinations of fiavoi^rj? XXXI ••• ••• 3^2 393
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CHAPTER XLIII.
Mode of administering emetics : — Compounds of Madana fruits Gompounds of Jimutaka ••» ... ... 394 — 399
CHAPTER XLIV. > Choice of purgatives : — Most efficient purgatives— Purgative compounds — Purgative soups — Asavas, wines, Sauviras, and Tushodakas, etc. — Instructions as to the way of administering purgative compounds of Danti, etc., in the manner of Trivrit compounds — Trivrit Ashtakam — Mode of using purgative fruits and milky exudations of trees— Administration of purgative medicines through the media of wine, etc. ... ... ... 400—417
CHAPTER XLV.
Rules to be observed in respect of liquid substances : — Water group — Modes of purifying different kinds of water and their virtues etc. — Milk group — Virtues of the different kinds of milk — Curd group — Virtues of the different kinds of curd — Takra group — Modes of preparing different kinds of Takra, and their attributes — Properties of butter, Kilat, etc. — Different kinds of Ghritas (clarified butter), and their properties — Oil group and the properties of different kinds of oil— Properties of the fat obtained from aquatic or domestic animals — Honey group — Classification of the different kinds of honey and their properties — Sugar-cane group, and the properties of the different preparations of sugar-cane juice, such as treacle, sugar, etc., — Wine group — Properties of the different kinds of animal urine... 418 — 468
CHAPTER XL VI.
Different kinds of for and drink :— Descripti^^ns of Sliali Dlianyam, Shasht'' "Ah . udhanyam, Vaidal, Mudga, Sesamum, Barley, Wheat, Sp , ' ..nanyametc. — Properties of Dlianyas according to their jnatui'ity — Description of the Vei'udha Dhanyas— Flesh group
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