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Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 1.4

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1.4.9

And when a physician extracts, by means of applications conforming to blunt instruments and the teachings of the treatises, / that is declared in the medical lore to be the extraction of foreign bodies (śalya). / Through iron arrows, hair, creepers, spear-heads, spears, and javelins,

1.4.10

of one whose limbs are pierced by stones and fire—in such a case there is a foreign body such as a projectile.

1.4.11

The application of countermeasures to it, that is the therapeutics of major surgery. / Likewise, that which is indicated as an arrow, grass, dust, worms, hair, / a blood clot, a muscle, pus, and whatever else is between tissues,

1.4.12

or pierced by a clod of earth or wood, one should know to be a foreign body.

1.4.13

Minor surgery and ENT: / Diseases of the head, diseases of the eyes, diseases of the ears in particular, / and those diseases which arise in the brows, throat, temples, and neck,

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the corrective action for them—nasal errhines, medicinal wicks, and collyria, / inunction, and mouth gargle procedures—is named minor surgery and ENT.

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Thus is named minor surgery and ENT.

1.4.15

Internal medicine: / Decoctions, powders, pills, and the five purificatory therapies, / and the pacifying procedure for diseases of the visceral tract, is internal medicine.

1.4.16

Rectal disease, pain of the bladder, pacification, evacuation by enema, / non-unctuous and unctuous enemas—and also toxicology indeed.

1.4.17

Paediatrics: / The knowledge of the management of pregnancy, and the management of the parturient woman, / and the pacification of diseases of children: that procedure is paediatrics.

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Toxicology: / That which pacifies the poison of snakes, scorpions, and spiders, / that procedure is declared by the wise under the name of toxicology.

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Demonology: / Spirits, ghosts, and fiends, as well as the seizures of Śākinīs and Ḍākinīs— / the complete subjugation of these is spoken of as demonology.

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Aphrodisiac therapy: / Nourishing and strength-increasing for those who are depleted and of weak virility, / and nourishing for balanced bodily tissues, is called aphrodisiac therapy.