Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c14.10

c14.10

§ 83. Treatment of eye-diseases :— According to Bower MS 1.78 ff., 2.847 ff., especially facial plaster, washings or injections (*ācyotana*), ointments particularly of antimony, and suppository should especially be used. Car, Vṛnda and other authors say nothing of the operative treatments. On the contrary, all 76 eye-diseases except the 24 difficult or incurable ones are to be treated, according to Su 6.8, with excision, scarification and other operations.