A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.463

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266 See on the surgical treatment of a prastāryarman: C. Srinivas (1994). The surgical treatment of a pterygium is also described in an ophthalmological Tamil text, ascribed to Agastya, called Akattiyarnayagaviti; the name of the disorder is nākapaṭalam (= Sanskrit nāgapaṭala), the instrument employed is called vilicam (see P.A. Iqbal, 1983: 455). See on Suśruta's surgical treatment of an arman: N.K. Bidyādhar (1939): 562–565. Compare on the surgical treatment of a pterygium in Graeco-Roman medicine: Celsus, De medicina VII.7; R.P.J. Jackson (1996): 2245; H. Magnus (1901): 389–390, 620–621; J.S. Milne (1907): 44–45; E. Savage-Smith (1985).