Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c13.10

c13.10

§ 67. Minor Diseases (*kṣudraroga*):— This group of diseases originally also comprising small-pox is already alluded to in the Bower MS (1.100, cf. 2. 86) and consists chiefly of different affections of skin. The group consists of 36 diseases in AS and AHr, 44 in Su, 43 in MN and 60 in Sārng. MN excludes small-pox from the group and treats it as an independent disease (§ 66). The following enumeration is based on MN, the meanings are mostly given in the appendix to Dutt, *Nidāna* 193 f.:— 1. *ajagallikā*— warts in children. 2. *yavaprakhyā*— very hard snob or humpback in flesh of the size of a barley-corn. 3. *antrālaji* (*andhālaji*-Suśruta)— a firm round tumour (abscess) with little pus. 4. *vivṛtā*— round tumours appearing like ripe figs. 5. *kacchapikā*— scrofulous gland-swelling.