Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c13.38
Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c13.38
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c13.38
§ 73. Elephantiasis :- This disease, known by the deformed swelling, appears in the law-books as a punishment by destiny for the breach of a vow for chastity in an early birth¹. As the name denotes, *ślīpada* chiefly arises on the foot; because the doṣas with an excess of phlegm penetrate in the lower half of the body, beginning
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