A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c47.51

v3.c47.51

A table of contents is found in chapter one (6–15). Chapters two to sixty-eight deal with: anatomy (pradeśa; 2);366 good and bad characteristics of horses (3.1–28),367 their whirls of hair (āvarta; 3.29–70),368 the deities presiding over the various parts of a horse's body (3.70–72), the puṇḍras (3.73–81),369 the puṣpas (3.82–92),370 the trot (gati; 3.93–97), the colour of horses (3.98–124),371 their neighing (svara, heṣita; 3.125–134), major defects (mahādoṣa) in horses (3.135–159),372 portents (utpāta; 3.160–170),373 the sheens (chāyā) of horses (3.171–179),374 their characters (sattva; 3.180–181),375 the measures of their limbs (pramāṇa; 3.182–194); their span of life (āyus; 4.1–16), the determination of their age by means of the development of their teeth and the meaning of various characteristics of their teeth (vayas; 4.17–34);376 the regional division of their body (daśā, kṣetra; 5); the racial classification of horses (6); their classification according to the four varṇas, sattva and śakti (7.1–10), the field of pasture (raṅgabhūmi; 7.11–12), rules for riding (7.13–73); the treatment of infertility in mares (8); the characteristics of a pregnant mare (9); the care for a mare after dropping its foal (10.1–12), the purification of a mare's milk (10.12–17), the care for the newborn foal (10.18–23); rules for the dosage of medicines (11); materia medica and technical terms (nighaṇṭu; 12);377 rules for feeding during the various seasons (13); the application of caustics (kṣarādāha; 14.1–6), cauterization (dāha; 14.7–20), the employment of surgical instruments (14.21–23); bloodletting (15); clysters (nirūha and anuvāsana; 16); errhines (nasya; 17);378 sudation (sveda; 18); oleaginous drinks (sneha; 19); medicated oils (20); medicated ghees (21); the treatment of fatigue (śrāntopacāra; 22); signs foreboding death (ariṣṭa; 23–25); mṛgaroga (26);379 the causes and signs of excitement of the three doṣas (27); a list of diseases (28); diseases of mouth and throat (29); 380 diseases of the head (31); lameness (laṅgita; 32); 382 diseases of the ears (33); cough (34); hiccup and shortness of breath (35); wounds and ulcers (vraṇa; 36); siṅghānaka (37); 383 ghṛṇiroga (38); 384 diseases of the legs and hoofs (pādaroga; 39); 385 fever (40); indigestion (ajīrṇa; 41); diarrhoea (42); colic (śūla; 43); 386 udāvarta (44); praskanna (45); 387 worms (kṛmikoṣṭha) and śleṣmakoṣṭha (46); mūtragraha (47); 388 kuṣṭha (48); 389 swellings (śotha; 49); disorders of scrotum and testicles (muṣkaroga; 50); 390 auṇītaroga (51); 391 udara (52); 392 haemorrhoids (53); utkarṇaka (54); 393 vātavyādhi (55); 394 unmāda (56); 395 disorders by grahas (57); 396 śoṣa (58); 397 vātabalāsaka (59); 398 vyāpad (60); 399 toxicology (61); convulsions (apasmāra; 62); ṣaṭpadībhakṣa (63); 400 signs indicating curability of a disease or its incurability (64); the constitutions (prakṛti; 65); some kalpas (66–68). 401