A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1339

v3.c46.1339

the male organ (7.20–30) and the size and firmness of the breasts in the female (7.37–43), removing a bad smell from the female genitals (7.45), removing the pubic hair in the female (7.46–50), and tightening the vagina (7.51–54). Chapter ten describes, amongst other things, how to drive away bhūtas who cause diseases (10.8–18), how to make insanity, kuṣṭha and visphoṭas appear and disappear again in one's enemies (10.19–31), and how to drive away insects, rats, snakes, etc. (10.32–44); it also contains recipes which are said to cure various women's diseases and female infertility, or to prevent abortion (10.46–93).