A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.316.2

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the characteristics of pure breastmilk;²⁴⁸ circumstances making the breastmilk unsuitable to the infant; cases in which an infant should not be breastfed (10.31); causes of corruption of the milk of a wet-nurse and its bad effects on the infant (10.32–33); signs enabling a physician to diagnose diseases in children (10.34–36); medicines suitable to a breastfed child (10.37); dosages to be administered to children in various periods of the first year(s) of life, dependent on their diet (10.38); medicines for breastfed children should be applied to the breasts of the one who nurses it (10.39); treatments not fit for breastfed children (10.40–41); the treatment of a children's disease in which the brain tissue (mastuluṅga)²⁴⁹ shrinks (kṣaya) and vāta bends down the palatal bone (tālvasthi)²⁵⁰ (10.42–43ab); the treatment of inflammation of the navel, called tuṇḍi (10.43cd–44ab); the treatment of inflammation of the anal region (gudapāka) (10.44c–f);²⁵¹ medicated ghees that can be prescribed to children of different ages (10.45); rules for the care of a child (10.46–47); substitutes for breastmilk (10.48); weaning (10.49); the protection of a child against the attacks of malevolent beings (grahopasarga) (10.50); the general symptoms of a child afflicted by a graha; the afflictions by grahas will be described more elaborately in the Uttara(tantra) (10.51);