Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c9.43

c9.43

§ 27. Surgical Operations¹ :- The major surgery (*śalya*) deals with the extraction of foreign matters from the body (§ 81), the blunt and sharp instruments, cauteries and brandings and Vraṇa (wounds in the widest sense, see § 78). The surgery of the eye, ear, nose and throat (*śālākya*) covers all ailments of the head, and especially deals with eye-diseases (§ 82). Each of these two sciences