A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.207

v3.c46.207

separate disease; the use of the synonyms vāhikā (14.65, 70, 72), nirvāhikā (14.61 and 77), niścāra (14.62), niścāraka (14.78 and 89), and bimbisī (14.64, 74, 79) for pravāhikā; the disease jalakūrma (17.589–632), probably identical with jalodara; the description of six types of pāṇḍuroga (the sixth arising from loṣṭavibhedana), quoted from a text called Mahāyāna (18.3); the elaborate description of masūrikā, on which subject the Bhāradvājīya is quoted (18.410–418), which states that it is of nine types, but of eight only according to some of the authorities; in a citation from Aurabhra (18.419–427) eight types are described: masūrikā, sarṣapikā, ajakā, kodrava, kaṅgu, visphoṭaka, pākī, and visarpi; remarkable is a formula against masūrikā said to be pāścātyajanapadaprasiddha, i.e., well known in western countries; an epidemic form of masūrikā is also referred to (18.467); the description of a disease, distinct from masūrikā, called kṣudramasūrikā or matsyanāśā (18.508–514), quoted from an authority named Bāhusaṅghā; śītapitta is regarded as identical with amlapitta (18.488–489); makkalla is called markaṭa (21.233, 236, 238); the description of a disease called vaṣṭiroga, erroneously diagnosed by others as aṣṭhilīkā, granthi or raktagulma (21.302–312); the description of an unperforated anus in a newborn child (21.330: advāraka guda) from a work called Prayogasiddhi;¹⁹⁶ an elaborate description of the disease called kṣīrālasaka (21.387–396ab) and its treatment (21.396cd–407); the religious treatment of fever in children (21.421–432); a children's disease called mukhadūṣikā, characterized by the appearance of pustules on the face (21.496), quoted from the Prayogasiddhi again;¹⁹⁷ a children's disease called nicūrikā, characterized by the repeated appearance and quick disappearance of blisters (21.499); a children's disease called viṣavajra, characterized by burning and by itching pustules (21.500); a children's disease called tuṇḍa, characterized by an inflamed navel (21.503–504);¹⁹⁸ the description of a disease called kuṇḍala, three varieties of which are distinguished (21.507–517); the description of several series of bālagrahas and the measures to ward them off, quoted from the Nārāyaṇīyabālatantra,¹⁹⁹ Jīvaka's Bālatantra,²⁰⁰ and an unspecified work (tantrāntara);²⁰¹ twenty-four diseases of the eyelids are enumerated and described (24, prose between 55 and 56), nine diseases of the junctures (sandhi) of the eyes (24, prose between 90 and 91), thirteen diseases of the white portion (śuklabhāga) of the eyes (24, prose between 99 and 100), five diseases of the black portion (24, prose between 135 and 136; 24.136–150), twenty-seven diseases of the dṛṣṭi (24, prose between 244 and 245), sixteen diseases affecting the whole eye (24, prose between 395 and 396), twenty-five diseases of the ears (24, prose between 515 and 516; 24.516; prose between 24.516 and 517), eighteen diseases of the nose (24.595–602 and prose passages), eleven diseases of the lips (oṣṭharoga; 24, prose between 645ab and cd), ten diseases of the teeth (dantaroga; 24, prose between 651 and 652), thirteen diseases of the roots of the teeth (dantamūlaroga; 24, prose between 689 and 690), six diseases of the tongue (jihvāroga; 24, prose between 742 and 743), eight diseases of the palate (24, prose between 763 and 764), eighteen diseases of the throat (kaṇṭharoga; 24, prose between 772 and 773), eight diseases affecting the whole oral cavity (sarvamukhagataroga; 24, prose between 800ab and cd), and nineteen diseases of the head (śiroroga; 24, prose at the beginning of the chapter).²⁰²