Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

The merits of a physician that is skilled in treatment, the faults that attach to one of a different stamp, the indications of a judicious, insufficient, or over dose in respect of the administration of correctives, {viz., emetics and purgatives), the character of the diverse disorders (that require the administration of correctives ), the benefits of the administration of correctives, the chief aphorisms with respect to treatment, the methods of alleviating the faults resulting from an insufficient and over administration of correctives the reasons that exist for treatment, and the object the physician keeps in view, have all been declared by the sage (Punarvasu) in this Lesson on skilful physicians.1'3

So ends the discourse on the four principal divisions of this Lesson. Thus ends the sixteenth Lesson, called ‘That about the skilful Physician,’ in Agniveca’s treatise as revised by Charaka.

LESSON XVII.

We shall, after this, expound the Lesson called ‘ Some diseases of the Head.’ Thus said the illustrious son of Atri.1

Agnivetja said, — Of embodied creatures, what are those dis¬ orders which have been said to affect the head ? And what are those which affect the heart? What are those disorders, again, of wind, bile, and phlegm (and diverse other constituents of the body), born of variations in respect of their measure ?+a How many kinds are there of deterioration or loss (as regards the elements of the body ) ? How many kinds are there, O sinless one, of those

* All that concerns man is classified under four heads, viz.. Religion or Righteous¬ ness, Wealth or earthly possessions, pleasure or enjoyments, and Salvation. — T.

t * Mana-vikalpajah ’ means ‘ born of variations in respect of quantity’. The sense is that diverse disease are generated by inequalities in respect of wind, bile and phlegm, and of the other constituent elements of the body. — T,

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PART VII.

CHARAKA-SAMHITA

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