A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.570

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in India: G.S. Bildhaiya, S.M. Marwaha and S.R. Patidar (1969); J. Bird (1825); N. Chevers (1886): 34–41; N.H. Fairley (1924); N.H. Fairley and W.G. Liston (1924); E. Hinz (1972): 1708–1709; Hobson-Jobson 401–402; S. Johnson and V. Joshi (1982); M.J. Joshi and C.D. Deshpande (1986): 52–53; R.H. Kennedy (1825); K. Lindberg (1946), (1948); Ch. Morehead (1860): 720–727; *K.C. Patnaik and P.N. Kapoor (1967); *C.K. Rao and G.V.M. Reddy (1965); *S.R. Rao (1942); C.R.R.M. Reddy, I.L. Narasaiah and G. Parvathi (1969); A.K. Saxena (1971); *J. Singh and N.G.S. Raghavan (1957); G. Smyttan (1825); *A.K. Tewari (1968). See on its treatment: P. Joshi (1991). See on its history: E.H. Ackerknecht (1963): 121; P.B. Adamson (1988); K.M. Bhansali and G.M. Mathur (1972); R. Hoeppli (1959): 5, 8, 19, 101–102, 256–257; K. Meier (1937–1938); H. Meige (1901). 94 Introductory remarks ad *Siddhayoga* 55.14. See about dracontiasis in Persia the account of the Dutch traveller Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (see the quotation in D.V.S. Reddy, 1971: 35); François Bernier, a famous French traveller of the seventeenth century, described the disease as occurring in Delhi (see: Anonymous, 1964c: 50–51). 95 See A.h.Ci.21.33; A.s.Ci.15.17 and 18.9, Ka.4.11 and 5.55. The *Bhelasaṃhitā* is also acquainted with a disorder called vardhma (Ci.5.36 and 45; 24.1). The disease called bradhna in the *Carakasaṃhitā* may be related to vardhma (see Ca.Ni.3.7; Ci.7.67; 9.56; 12.94; 28.25). In addition, bradhna is an anatomical term in the *Carakasaṃhitā*, denoting the rectum (guda; see Cakrapāṇi ad Ca.Sū.14.17 and Vi.7.23); Vijayarakṣita, however, regards it as a term designating the groin (ad *Mādhavanidāna* 22.10). The *Kāśyapasaṃhitā* (dhātricikitsādhyāya) refers to bradhna as a disorder caused by vāta. Later authorities employ either bradhna or vardhma for the same disease; P.V. Sharma (AVI 236–237) holds that, originally, bradhna and vardhma were two different disorders. Some sources consider bradhna to be a synonym of the disease usually called vṛddhi (see, e.g., *Paryāyaratnamālā* 1415). 96 Vṛnda borrowed his definition of vardhma (= vardhma) from Mahīdhara’s *Viśvavallabhā* according to Niścalakara ad *Cakradatta*, vṛddhi 22. 97 P.V. Sharma (AVI 236–237) supposes it to be lymphogranuloma venereum; this virus disease, however, is found especially in West Africa and in North and South America (see Ph.H. Manson-Bahr, 1966: 582). The *Kusumāvalī* mentions vāḍḍhosī as the vernacular word for vardhma (ad *Siddhayoga* 40.19–20). 98 *Siddhayoga* 3.69 (see the commentary). Vijayarakṣita (ad *Mādhavanidāna* 3.21) remarks that Hārīta employs the term niścāraka for the disorder usually called pravāhikā. Compare Kaiyadeva 8.255: niścāraka = pravāhikā. 99 Ca.Sū.20.11. 100 A.h.Ni.15.14 = A.s.Ni.15.15. 101 *Hyoscyamus niger* Linn., the henbane. This plant is a very old drug, already used by the Assyrians; it is recommended against tooth-worms in the *Compositiones* of Scribonius Largus in the first half of the first century A.D. (see B.R. Townend, 1944: 46). Pāraśī-kayavānī is also identified as *Artemisia scoparia* Waldst. et Kit. (G.V. Satyavati, M.K. Raina and M. Sharma, 1976: 94–96) and *A. maritima* Linn. (see M. Abdul Kareem, 1997, Nr. 169). 102 Several species of *Datura* are called dhattūra. 103 This became a favourite indication in later treatises. See on aśoka: T.B. Middelkoop (1985); T.K. Biswas and P.K. Debnath (1972). 104 This recipe, which became famous in later times, is not yet found in the *Mādhavacikitsā*. See on the nāgārjunavarti: P.V. Sharma (1993c): 36–37.