Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c14.2

c14.2

1. Of the whole eye. Ophthalmia (*abhiṣyanda*, frequent even at present) of four kinds which, if neglected, lead to difficult ophthalmia (*adhimantha*) with pain as if the eye were torn out and half of the head were crushed, and by wrong treatment causes loss of eyesight within 5-7 days or even earlier. Suppuration of the eye (*netrapāka*). There is itch, secretion, dropping, pain and tumour. A particularly painful and incurable form of *adhimantha* demolishing the visual faculty is called *hatādhimantha*. If *vāyu* moves the eyebrows and eyes alternately with violent pain, it is called spasmodic convulsion (*vātaparyāya*). The dry irritation of the eye (*śuṣkākṣipāka*) or scrofulous ophthalmia (Dutt) is that in which the eye pinches and burns. *Anyatovāta* : the *vāyu* in the ears, head etc. causes pain in the eyebrows and the eyes. *Amlādhyuṣita-iritis*. *Sirotpāta*-the veins in the eyes become copper-coloured, with or without pain. If neglected, this develops into *sirāpraharsa* whereby one continually drops copper-coloured drops and cannot see.