Hindu Medicine c5.s3.87

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c5.s3.87

After this digression, individual diseases due to the humors are discussed. The first is elephantiasis. Its description by Suśruta (II, 12) is unsatisfactory from the modern point of view:

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Suśrutasaṃhitā — Suśruta & Nāgārjuna (siddha/alchemist), Sanskrit