The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.108

c8.108

¹ In the AV., VI, 127, 1, viśalyaka figures beside vidradhá "abcess", of balāsa, "oedematic ailment" (infra, p. 117. The stanza 2 of the AV., VI, 127, indicates that balāsa is located in the cavity of the arm-pit", yáu te balāsa tiṣṭhataḥ kákṣe muṣkāv ápaśritau) and of lohita "the red" (undoubtedly a lympangitis). A distinction is made among three types of the same: those of the limbs (aṅgya), that of the ears (karṇya) and that of the two eyes (akṣṇoḥ). These special localisations fit in quite well with the hypothesis that viśalyaka is erysipelas.