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scarified. In £>yâva-vartma and Kardama-vartma, the intelligent physician will gently scarify the affected part neither deeply nor superficially. In cases of Ut~ sangini, Sarkari and Kumbhikini, the seat of the disease should be first cut (with a knife) and then carefully scarified. An incision should be followed by a scarification in the case of small, very hard, supperated, coppercoloured, Pidakds (pustules) occurring on (the inner membrane of) the eye-lid. Small and slightly swelling Pidak^s (pustules) occurring on the exterior surface of the eye-lid should be remedied with fomentations, plasters and the general corrective remedies. 6.

Thus ends the thirteenth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Sus'ruta Samhitd which treats of the curative treatment of (eye-) diseases amenable to scarification.

CHAPTER XIV.

Now we shall discourse on the curative treatment of eye-diseases which require surgical incisions (Bhedya*

Roga-Prâtishedha). i.

Treatment of Visa-granthi : — In a case of suppurating Visa-grauthi, it should be first fomented, and its puncture-like holes should be completely incised (so as to remove any swelling in the affected part). It should then be dusted with Saindhava , KAs’is'a , MAgadhi , Pushpdnjana, Manah-s'ild and Eld pounded together*. Honey and clarified butter should then be applied (over the dusted part), and it should be duly (loosely) bandaged (for the complete union of the parts). 2.

Lagana : — An incision should be made into the affected part in a case of Lagana, and any of the following drugs, viz., RochanA, Yava-kshdra, Tuttha , Pippali and honey should be applied to the incised part ; while in serious (lit. —big) cases cauterization with alkali or with fire will be the remedy. 3.

An Jana In a case of Anjana, the affected part should be duly fomented and if it spontaneously bursts open, it should be well pressed and rubbed (Pratisarana) with a plaster-compound of Manah-s'ild, Eld, T agar apddukd and Saindhava, pasted together with honey. If, however, the surgeon wants to open it, it should be rubbed with honey and Rasdnjana mixed together and

* Both Vrinda and Chakradatta read only the first two lines of the text and hold that the incision should be dusted with Saindhava only. Their commentators, however, accept the reading there to be Sus'ruta's. They supply the next two lines of Sus'ruta, and notice the consequent alteration in the sen$e.

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then coated with a warm collyrium made with the lamp-black collected from a burning lamp flame. 4. Krlmi-granthi s— In a case of Krimi-granthi, the affected part should be duly fomented after it has been incised and it should then be treated with the Rasa-kriyd solution prepared with (the decoction of) Triphald (with the addition of) Tuttha'% Kd-sisa and Saindhava. In a case of Upanalia (in the eye) due to the action of the deranged Kapha, the affected part should be opened and rubbed with powdered Pippali and Saindhava mixed with honey. It should then be scraped with a Mandaldgra instrument. The surrounding parts should also be gently scratched all around. 5.

In the foregoing five cases of incisable eye-disease, until the setting in of suppuration therein, the affected eye should first be treated with Sneha and then with light fomentation with (the help of) tender leaves (as a cover over the eye). In all the remedies to be adopted in the treatment of these (incisable eye) diseases, the application of a Sneha should be first adopted. In cases, however, where suppuration had already set in, the remedies for the healing up of the ulcer, should be carefully adopted. 6.

Thus ends the fourteenth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra of the Sus'ruta Samhitd which deals with the curative treatment of (eye*) diseases requiring incisions.

* Both Vrinda and Chakrapani read 'Mulra? (cow’s urine) in place of * Tuttha'. Both of them also recommend the addition of Rasânjana in the compound.

CHAPTER XV.

Now we shall discourse on the curative treatment of cyc-diseases, which should be cured with excisions

(Chhedya-Roga-Pratishedha). i.