A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c33.472

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283 Compare with the other translations that by K.C. Dutt (1938); see also the German translation by Gustav Oppert in J. Hirschberg (1899: 38–39). See on the practice of sprinkling the milk of a nursing woman into the eye after the puncture (17.61cd): K.C. Dutt (1938): 4–5. See on the Indian operation of couching a cataract: N.K. Bidyādhar (1939): 570–571, 573; F. Brandt et al. (1984); *P. Breton (1826); N. Chevers (1886): 469; C.A. Clapp (1934): 147–151; H.E. Drake-Brockman (1895); K.C. Dutt (1938); *R. Ekambaram (1910); R.H. Elliot *(1906), (1912), (1917a), *(1917b), (1919), (1920): 215–241; A.A.M. Esser (1934b); A. Feigenbaum (1960); *G.L. Gaudebert (1934); H. Hāser (1865): II, 5–38; J. Hirschberg (1894), (1899): 36–41, (1908), (1920); *G.L. Johnson (1925); J. Jolly (1901): 114 (C.G. Kashikar 138); *Macnamara (1868): 479 (see for a German translation: J. Hirschberg, 1899: 37–38); H. Magnus (1876): 172–189; G. Majno (1975): 378–379; F.P. Maynard (1903), *(1905); B. Mukhopadhyay and K.R. Sharma (1993); R.F.G. Müller (1939; German translation and comments); *A. Nelaton (1850); *H. Powers (1901); V.C. Rambo (1955); T.M. Shah (1894); H. Smith (1904b), *(1905); N.N. Sood and A. Ratnaraj (1968); T.A. Wise (1986): 303; J.G.F. Worst et al. (1991). Cf. Siddhayoga 61.174–175 (together with the comments of the Vyākhyākusumāvalī); Cakradatta, netraroga 151–155 (together with the comments of Niścalakara and Śivadāsasena); Ugrāditya's Kalyāṇakāraka, kṣudraroga 279–281. Couching is referred to by the famous Telugu poet Vemana (see P. Hymavathi, 1993: 268) and in Siddha medical texts (see: P.A. Iqbal, 1983: 452; A. Suresh and G. Veluchamy, 1983: 469–470). The operation may be depicted in a relief from the area of Mathurā (see A.J. Bernet Kempers, 1936). See on couching in Graeco-Roman antiquity and in other cultures: G. Baader (1967); A. Feigenbaum (1954); M. Feugère, E. Künzl, U. Weisser (1985); J. Hirschberg (1899); R.P.J. Jackson (1996): 2248–2250; K. Kalbfleisch (1924); P. Knapp (1930); A. Krug (1993): 87; H. Magnus (1876), (1901); M. Meyerhof (1933); Th. Puschmann (1966): 117–118; C.H. Sasse (1959): 3079. Couching is described by Celsus (De medicina VII.7.13–14; Latin text and English translation: Loeb ed., III, 344–353) and Paulus Aegineta (seventh century) (Greek text and German translation: M. Feugère, E. Künzl, U. Weisser, 1985: 459–461). The operation is referred to as parakentēsis in a fragment of the Stoic philosopher Chrusippos (third century B.C.) (see M. Feugère, E. Künzl, U. Weisser, 1985: 456; K. Kalbfleisch, 1924). The description of couching by the Greek physician Antullos (of uncertain date) has only been preserved in al-Rāzī's Kitāb al-ḥāwī (discussion and German translation in: M. Feugère, E. Künzl, U. Weisser, 1985: 486–488). Extraction of the lens is mentioned by Antullos and Galen (see M. Feugère, E. Künzl, U. Weisser, 1985: 463; M. Meyerhof, 1933: 78).