A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.322

v1.c23.322

The subjects are: general features making fractures and dislocations hard to cure (3.3);⁴¹ dietary and behavioural rules for patients with a fracture or dislocation (3.4); recommendations regarding diet (3.5); trees possessing a bark suitable for the making of splints (kuśā) (3.6);⁴² local applications in the form of plasters (ālepana) (3.7); rules for changing the bandage and for its proper degree of tightness (3.8–10); rules for local irrigations (pariṣeka) (3.11–13ab); a recipe for internal use (3.13cd–14ab); the treatment of a compound fracture (3.14cd–15ab); the dependence of the healing of a fracture on the age of the patient (3.15cd–17ab); the various ways of reducing fractures and dislocations (3.17cd–19); the utpiṣṭa and viśliṣṭa types of dislocation should not be reduced, but treated with cold irrigations and plasters (pradeha) (3.20); the technique of splinting (3.21–22ab); the treatment of fractures and dislocations at particular sites: the junction of nail and skin (3.23), the fingers and toes (3.24), the sole of the foot (3.25), lower leg or thigh (3.26), hip joint (ūrvasthi)⁴³ (3.27), pelvis (3.28), ribs (parśuka) (3.29–30), shoulder joint (aṃsasandhi) (3.31), elbow, knee, ankle and wrist (3.32–33), palm of the hand (3.34–35), clavicle (akṣaka) (3.36), upper arm (3.37ab), neck (3.37cd–39ab), jaw (3.39cd–40), teeth (3.41–43ab),⁴⁴ nose (3.43cd–44), (pinna of the) ear (3.45), and skull (3.46); the treatment of sprains (3.47); the immobilization of a patient on a fracture-bed (kapātāśayana) ⁴⁵ and the indications for this type of treatment (3.48–51); the treatment of a malunited fracture by refracturing and setting it in the right position (3.52); debridement of a compound fracture by trimming the projecting part of the bone (3.53); general measures for fractures of the upper part of the body (3.54);⁴⁶ the preparation of gandhataila and its indications (3.55–66); another useful medicated oil (3.67–68); the prevention of infection and suppuration (pāka) (3.69); the signs of successful healing (3.70).