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Kashikar c19 - **Language:** English ### General Index ### [c19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.1) Abbasians 26 abortion 91-4 abrus precatorius 43 abscess 61, 64 acme 27 active senses 67 acute dysentary 110 adular 50 albuminorrhae 122 alchemy 44, 189 Alexander the Great 32 aloes wood 57 amulet 83, 88 anaemia 128 anatomy 3, 6, 15, 17, 25, 62ff. animal-hides 31 anointing 56 antelope 57 antidote 180 antimony sulphide 55, 168 apes 181 aphrodisiacs 6, 9, 22 apoplexy 176-7 Arabia 26-7, 44, 140, 205 Arabic 10, 11, 14, 16, 21 Arabs 4, 44 arms 63 Arrian 32 asafoetida 23, 26, 113-4 ascetic 32 Asclepiads 27 asthma 131-3 astrology 28 astronomy 28 autumn 57 back 63-4 Bactrian physician 26 ### [c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.2) bad company 32 balls 43 bamboo 31 Banaras 2, 3, 18-9 bandage 45-7, 161 bandaging 31, 133 barley 55, -rum 123 barrenness 96 basic elements 61-2 bath 56 bears 182 Bel fruit 112 belly 64, -worm 121 Bengal 9, 32, 109, 114 Bengali 8 berberis asiatica 55, 155 bertram, root of 26 betel-leaves 56 bibliography 28-9 bile 59, -stone 123 birch-bark 21 bird's beak 25 birth 79 birth-contractions 92 birth-pains 83 birth-peristalsis 82 birth-throes 92 bitumen 32 bladder 31, -stone 123 bleeding 27, 128 blood 59,61, -circulation 61,207, -letting 51-3, 58, 61, 65, 134, -vessels 31 board 31 boils 143, 147-9 bone 61-2, -fractures 163 Bos gavneus 94 ### [c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.3) Bower MS 1, 13ff., 42-4, 53-4, 60, 101, 108, 112-4, 123, 131, 142, 157, 166, 168, 170, 182, 184 braid of hair 84 branding 27, 31, 50-1 brass 20 breasts 83 British museum 26, 28 broths 6, 22 Buddhism 12, 26 Buddhistic works 23 Buddhist medicine 25 burjats 26 Burma 26 burning 135-6, -wick 52, -wounds 21 butter 21, 45, 55, -decoctions 22 -milk 123 buttocks 84 caeserian section 96 calabash 47-8, 52 calcination 4-5, 8-9, 26, 44 camphor 56 cardamom 56 care of the confined woman 82-5 care of the new born 85 cartilage of nose 63 caruncles 134 Catalogus catalogorum 10 cataract 28, 66, 166, -operation of 168 cauteries 28, 50 cauterisation 50-1 cauterizing 27, 31 Central Asiatic manuscripts 1, 21-3 Ceylon 21, 23, 26 cheeks 63 cheiloplasty 170-1 ### [c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.4) child, female 75, impotent- 81, male- 75, -welfare 22 children's diseases 101-3 chin 63 China 21 Chinese 16, -traders 156 chlorosis 27, 127-8 cholera 109ff. chronic, diseases 71, -dysentary 110 chyle 61, 81 cinnabar 20 cinnamon 25, 114 clavicle 63 cleansing bath 75 cobra 22 coccinelle 61 coccyx 63 cohabitation 57 collar-bone 59 complications 129 conception 73-6 cold preparations 6 colic 114 consecration ceremony 30 constellation 87 consumption 24, 129-31 conversations 30 cooking, royal 32 copper 20, 22 corals 158 corn on the foot 141 cosmology 3, 67-8 costus 25, 27 cotton 46, 52 cough 131-3 counter-incision 45 court-physician 23, 32 cow-dung 51 cow-horn 52 cranium 64 cross-sections 30 cucumbers 30 cupping of blood 52 curetting 31, 46 cutting bark 50 cyprinus Rohita 54 damasked steel 20 datura 182 dead, animals 31, -body 66 death 32 decantation 139 decoctions 6 delirium tremens 177 desires of the pregnant woman 77 diabetes 6, 121-3 diagnosis 6, 8, 17, 23 diamond, artificial 20, -emerald 20 diarrhoea 4, 109 ff., 157 diet 53-5 dietetics 3, 8, 15, 17, 25 digestion 22 Diaskorides 27 diptheria 135 discharges, natural 25 diseases of digestion 113 ff., -of the head 166ff., -of vāta 175 dislocations 163 disputations 30 dissection 66-7 dogs 182 doll 31 donkey 30 drainage 45 dress 32 drunkenness 32 Dsungars 26 ### [c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.5) dysentary 109ff., 157 dysmenorrhea 62 dyspnoea 132 ear-diseases 169-71 ears 64 eczema 143 elbow 63 electuaries 6 elements, gross 67-8 elephantiasis 58, 152 elephants 20-1 elixir 8-9, 22, 42 embelic ribes 121 emblica officinalis 123 embryology 3,6, 15, 17, 25,79 ff. emetics 57 entrails 64 epics 24-5 epidemic diseases 72 epilepsy 178 erysipelas 61, 64 erythem 141 excision 45-6 external, abscesses 150, -fever 107, -relations 25-8 extracting 46 extraction 45 eye-diseases 6, 22, 166ff. eye-ointment 22-3 eyes 63-4 eye-sockets 27 eye-star 66 face-applications 42 faint 176-7 fasts 23 fat 61-2 fatness 135-6 fat of monkeys 21 favus 141 feet 63 female child 81 fermented drinks 54 ferromagnets 20 fever 4,6,9,104ff., 138, stages of 27 fibrous aponeurosis 66 Ficus Indica 77, 158 finger 50, 63-4 fire 50 fish 181 fistula 159-60 flax 46 flesh 31, 54, 61-2, hog's- 21 -lungs 134 foetus 64,91, dead- 27, sex of 26 -hook 48 folk-medicine, Indian 24 fomentations 23 food 32 foot-ankle 63 forehead 63-4 foreign bodies 164 fowlers 32 fracture 163 fragrance 56 Franc disease 155 francoline 57 fresh clothes 56 fresh shoots 50 friend 32 fumigations 41, 45 furuncle 143 gad-flies 181 garglings 23, 42 garland 56 garlic 14, 19, 22, 25 genitals 83, 93 Germans 24 ### [c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.6) ghee 51, 134, 162, 182 giddiness 176-7 ginger 25, 114 glass 50 glossaries, medical 20, 200 Goa 156 Gods 19 goitre 151-2 gold 6, 20, 22,43 gourds 30-1 Greece 27-8 Greek 7, 61, -coins 28, -elements 28, -medicine 205 Greeks 28 gronts 75 growths 151-2 Gupta script 21 Gwalior 7 haematuria 62 haemorrhage 128-9 haemorrhoidal tumours 27 haemorrhoids 8, 157-9 hair 32, 50, -dyes 22, -of the tail 46 hand-joints 63 hands 63 hard parts 81 hare 57 head 63, -diseases 174 healing herbs 32 heart-disease 62, 133 heart-troubles 27 heels 63 hemispherical cut 45 hemp 46 hernia 153-4 herpes 141 hiccup 131-3 hips 63 ### [c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.8) honey 45, 51-2, 55, 57, 123, 162, 182 horn 47-8, -of ox 25, -scarifying 23 horses 21 hospitals 1, 32, animal- 21 house-lizard 181 humoral pathology 27-8 hundred-footed insects 181 hunters 32 hydrocele 153-4 hydrophobia 182 hyenas 182 hygiene 9, 15, 25 hygienic directions 55-8 hypertrophy of skin 143 ichthyosis 143 impotency 73, 156 incantations 45, 93 incision 45-6 India 26 Indians 61 indigestion 62 Indus 12 inflammation 146-7, -of the eyes 21 infusions 6 instruction 30 internal abscesses 150 internal diseases and their treatment 101ff. internal fever 107 internal sense 67 intoxication 177-8 iritis 166 iron 8, 20, 22, -filings 20 irritability 62 jackals 182 jaundice 4, 6, 127-8 ### [c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.9) jaw-bone, lower 63 joints 65 Kalpi 6 Kashgar 21 keloid 143 khas 67 knee 63 king 31-2, 125 knife 82 lamp-black 53 lancet 53 laparotomy 23 larynx 134 law-books 24 lead 20 leather 31, -bags 31 leeches 27, 50-1, 147, 151-2, 155, 181 left hand 28 lense 66, 167 lentil 137 leprosy 6, 20, 62, 64, 143-6 Leptscha 26 leucoderma 144 lichen circumscriptus 141 linen 31, 46, -thread 85 lipoma 151 liquors 6, 54, 57 lithotomy 27 lithuresis 124 liver-spot 141 looking glass 56 lotus, blue 25, -stalk 23, 31 lux 156 lunatic 179 lungs 3 Macartney MS 17, 22 madness 62, 178-80 maggots 23 magician 24 magic spell 24, 26 magnet 48, 165 Malanchi 192 male, child 81, -donkey 84, -sex 27 marrow 61-2 massage 56-7, 133 materia medica 1, 3 meal sauce 43 measles 147-9 measures 6, 207 medical profession 31 medical Samhitas 24 medical year 56 medicated ghee 6 medicinal, herbs 23, -stuffs 6 medicine, effect of 6, form and quantity of- 42-3, Greek- 27, Indian- 27, origin of- 3, Vedic 24 Megasthenes 21 membranes 66 menses 74 menstruation 73-6 mental fever 107 mercury 4, 43-4, 156 mice 181 milk 86, 135, -and flesh 25, cow's- 90, goat's- 91, 133, insertion of- 21, woman's- 169, -tympany 90 millet-corn 25 minor diseases 10, 140-2 modern works 1-2 Mongolian 26 molasses 134 morbus Bengalensis 109 mortar 82 ### [c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.10) mouth-diseases 172-4 mouth of animal 25 mouth-rinsing 42 mucas discharge 83 muscles 62, 65 music 87 mustard 86 myrobalans 23, 25, 55, 113 nails 32, 50, 63 nasal, bones 63, -diseases 172, -remedy 23 natural fever 107 naval 64, 81, 85 neck 63 needle 46 Nepalese MS 21 nerves 65 nervous diseases 175ff. nettle-rash 65, 147-9 net-works 66 new rice 57 norcotic 54 North American Indians 24 nose 64 nourishment 17 oblique cut 45 obstetrics 82-5 obstructed delivery 94-6 oils 22-3, 51, 53 ointment 42, 51 onychie 141 opening 31, 64 ophthalmia 169 ophthalmology 15 opium 4, 9, 11, 15, 20-2, 43-4 orange 26 organs, active 64, internal- 64 otalgia 169 otoplasty 170-1 otorrhoea 169 outcastes 32 oxides 6 oxyurids 121 ozena 172 pair of tongs 47 palate 63 palm, lower part of 63 Panjab 17 panthers 182 papyrus-roll 28 paracentesis 27 paraphimosis 141 pastes 6 pathology 4, 10, 15, 17, 69-72 patient 31-2 pelvis ? 63 penance 72 pepper 84,114,black- 25, -root 84 perimetritis purperalis 98 peristalsis 79 peritonitis 98 Persia 10, 26, 27 Persian 16, 21 pestle 83 pharmacology 3, 8, 17, 25, 27 pharmacy 8 phaseolus mungo 55 philosopher's stone 20 philosophy 67-8 phimosis 141 phlegm 59 phthisis 27, 129 physical exercise 56 physicians 17, caste of- 24, outward appearance of- 32, -and therapy 30ff., position and practice of- 31-2, training of- 30-1 ### [c19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.11) physiology 6, 17 pills 6, 43 pitcher 86 placenta 81, 93 planets 137 plasters 51 pleurisy 133 plumbago zeylanica 22 pockets 31 poisoning 6, 9, 32 poisonous, frogs 181, -spiders 181 poisons 180 polype 134 polyuria 121 poor 32 poppy-seed 20 Portugese 3, 156 possession 178-80 potash 50 powders 6, 22, 43 power 62 practical training 30 pregnancy 26, 76-9 principles 67 probe 42, 50-1 probing 31, 45-6 prognosis 6, 8, 17 prolapsus iridis 167 property 32 psoriasis 143, -on foot 143 pterygium 167 pubic bone 63 pulse-feeling 11, 15, 26 puncturing 45-6 pupil 30, 66, -in the eye 167 pustules 137ff., 148 pytiriasis 143 quacks 17, 31 quail 57 quartan fever 27, 107 quicksilver 4, 6, 8-11, 15, 20, 22, 121, 138 quotidian fever 27, 107 rainwater 55 ramula 173 rat 142, 181 rebirth, doctrine of 25 recipes, mixed 22 red bull-hide 83 reed 31, 65 removing 31 remunerations 31 repast 55 reservoirs 64 retention of urine 126-7 retroperistaltic movements 94 Rhazes 14, 27 rheumatism 176 rhinoplasty 170-1 ribs 63 rice-gruel 83 right hand 28 ripe dysentary 110 ripening fever 107 rock-crystal 50 rocksalt 55, 154 Roman 20, 24 round out 45 ruby 50 salt 23, 52-3 sandal, -ointment 57, red- 28, -powder 1, white- 28, -wood 30, 135, 139 sarsaparilla 1, 156 Sassanians 26 scalpel 154 scarification 25, 45, 52 scoop-wheel 111 ### [c19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.12) scorpions 181 scrofulous tumours 151-2 seasons 56-7, effect of- 6, influence of-: 22, 27 sections 30 self 82 semecarpus anacardium 146 sense-functions 64-5 sense-organs 64 senses 67, -of activity 68, -of perception 67-8 serpent-bites 32, 181 serpent-demon 180 serpent-spell 22, 25 servant 32 sesame 45, -oil 55 shoes 32 shoulders 63 silver 20, 22 sin 32 sinew 46, 65 sinners 32 sinns 160 sixteenth to eighteenth century 2-4 sixth night 87 skin-diseases 41, 142-6 skin-layers 64 skin of black serpent 84 small pox 10, 15, 22, 137-40 smilax 156 softening poultice 42 soft parts 81 songs 87 sorcerer 24 soul 67 sources 1-29 spannish collar 141 spasmodic convulsion 166 spear 114 spells, vedic 23 sperm 61, -effusion 62, -of women 73, -stone 62 spices 56 spine 63 spiritual teacher 32 spirituous drink 27, 54, 57, 89, 93, 99, 130, 135, 162, 177 spleen 136 squeezing 31 stag 57 St. Anthony's fire 147-9 steel 8 stick 32 still-birth 24 stone-operation 125 stone-salt 114 strangury 126-7 sugar 125 sulphate of iron 154 sulpher 11, 43 summer 57 suppository 42 surgery 25, 28, 205 major- 44 surgical, instruments 28, 47-50, -operations 44-7 sutures 66 suturing 31, 45-6 swelling of abdomen 116 ff. swampy regions 153 symptoms 72 syphilis 1, 3-4, 43, 155 syrup 51-2 tabernaemontana coronaria 53 Tanguts 26 tapeworm 121 tapping 46 taste 17 tea 2 ### [c19.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.13) technical term 1 teeth 31, 63, roots of- 63 teething 101 temples 63 Terai 152 terminalia chebula 22, 108 tertian fever 27, 107 testicles, swollen 153-4 tetanus 86-7 tetter 141 text-book 30 theoretical conceptions 59 ff. theory of development and gynaecology 73 ff. therapy 4, 15 thigh 63 thinness 135-6 thirst 135-6 Tibet 12, 23, 25-6 tiger 181-2 tinea vesicolor of scalp 141 toes 63 tongue-scraper 55 toxicology 15, 175 ff. toys 87 traumas 162 treatment of obstructed delivery 96 ff. trembling 62 triplets 75 trocar 49, 154 tuberculosis 129-31 tubes 65 tumour 27, 64, 146-7 151-2 Turdus ginginianus 49 turmeric 123 twigs 86 twins 75, birth of- 27 ulceration 130 ulcers 41, 160-1 umbilical cord 85 umbrella 32 unnatural fever 107 unripe dysentary 110 unripe fever 107 upper coccyx 96 uraemia 127 urinary stone 123-6 urine, goat's 152 urticaria evanida 149 uterine liquid 83 vagina 82, 93 Vedic medicine 33-5 venison 55 vessels 65, basic- 65 veterinary science 20-1 vitality 62, 64, 80 warts 140, 155 water 57, cold- 135, 138, lukewarm- 134, -melons 30, warm- 21 wax 31, 51 weaning off 87 weights 6, 207 wells 32 wet corn on the foot 141 wet nurse 80 ff. white, brass 20, -leprosy 144 wife 32 wind 59 wine 45, black- 21 Wolgakalmuk 26 wolves 182 women's diseases and their treatment 98-100 wood, worm eaten 31 worm-diseases 120 ff. worms 20, 101 ### [c19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.jolly-1901.c19.14) wounds 32 zinc 22 afim 44 afin 44 afyun 44 Akbar 4 Alberuni 16, 18, 21 Astankar 11 Badan 10 baesazem 26 bizisk 26 Basuri 140 Camariya 139 Camargoti 139 davakhana 36 I-tsing 14, 16, 19, 23 Mahmud Shah 6 manthra 26 Muwaffaq 27 ratti 43 Razi 14, 27 Sanaq 14 yahya ibn chalid 14 yadan 10 yedza 129 ἄκορος 27 ἀπεψία 27 βδέλλιον 27 ζιγγίβερις 27 καρδάμωμος 27 κύπειρος 27 κιννάμωμος 27 πέπερι 27 πεπέρεις ῥίζα 27 ὄπιον 44 πέψις 27 σάκχαρι 27 σήσαμον 27 --- Source: 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