A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.473

v1.c23.473

The subjects dealt with are: general symptoms and treatment (19.3–4); the general measures should be employed when the injury is still fresh (sadyohata);³⁰³ in a later stage, the treatment should be like that of abhiṣyanda; the pain of a minor trauma disappears by the application of warm breath (asyabāṣpa) (19.5); prognostic features of eye injuries (19.6–7ab); the treatment of cases in which the eyeball is pushed inside or protruding (19.7cd–8ab); the seventy-six eye diseases described occur in both children and adults, but one additional and distinct disease, kukūṇaka, affects the eyelids of children only; it is caused by vitiated breastmilk, kapha, vāta, pitta, and blood (19.8cd–9ab); the symptoms and treatment of kukūṇaka (19.9cd–10);³⁰⁴ treatment by the induction of vomiting (19.11–12); washing (paridhāvana), irrigation (avasecana) and eyedrops (āścyotana) in cases of kukūṇaka (19.13); collyria against kukūṇaka (19.14); guṭikāñjanas (19.15); the treatment of śukra and kaphābhiṣyanda in children (19.16); the importance of a thorough study of the medical science (19.17–20).