Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c13.13.4

c13.13.4

In fat particularly there is lameness of hands, inability to walk, decay of limbs, spreading of wounds from one part of body to the other. In marrow and bones there is prolapsis or decay of nose, redness of eyes, maggots are formed in the wounds, the voice is choked. If present in the *śukradhātu* of the father and in the menstrual blood of the mother, the leprosy is transferred to both the offsprings.