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Analysis of a Tibetan Medical Work. 49 
In the explanatory part, there are 11 places or sections, and 31 chap- 
ters; in vera egy ctive part on cures or remedies for each specified dis- 
ease, there are 15 cisdciiatadions and 92 Ber armed last ae has four 
divisions aisd 27 chapters. 
Third Chapter. 
The theory of the human constitution is illustrated by a similitude 
taken from the Indian fig-tree (Ararcaais y Thus, there are three 
eots or trunks; thence arise nine stems; thence spread 47 boughs or 
tianches; thence 224 leaves; two blossoms, and three fruits. The ex- 
plication of the simile as applied to the states of the body. The single 
i es; the ste isi ce, 
es. 
There are seven hg 3 8 ende of the Body “es which life depends; the 
chyle, fledd, flesh, fat, bon arrow, and semen. Description of the 
sweat. 
The three pes tronhee causes of disease are: lust or ardent desire ; 
passion or anger ; dulness or ignorance. 7 eo first is caused wind ; by 
the and. forced: by the last, nate The ry causes of disease are 
four with respect to cold and andes rg ra evil spirit ; 3, wrong 
use of food: ‘and 4, = enti of life. 
The y; commonly subject to diseases, are six : the 
skin, the nals soy veins, the bones, the viscera, and the Is. 
The “int hae of the three humours are: that of the phlegm ms 
upper of the body, as the proper place of dulness, in 
or aa that a the bile, in the middle part of the body, hich is sit 
pro riate to anger ; and the wind resides in the lower part of the trunk, 
in a6 a d loins, as in its proper place 
wo 15 ways or channels through which disease spreads itself, 
The ohateaad of if motion of wind are, the bones, the ear, skin, heart, 
ure he nose and the tongue, the lungs, the 
ielaen, pete the ag trang ‘the stomach, ve ne bladder, are the vehicles 
for the conveyance of the phlegmatic humo 
hy th respect to the three humours, this facta distinction is made: 
wind i ominant in the Some ke of old people; bile, in those of 
wiicieubeatta or youths ; Sporn dren. 
phi in chil 
With respect to place (or teak of | the body); wind occursin the cold 
ante! of the vier Be in the dry and hot parts; phlegm abides in the 
and unctuous parts 
“The seve! ical os seasons, in which the diseases caused b any of these 
three humours prevail, are thus stated: diseases, ca b d, arise 
commonly during the summer season, before the dawn, about mid 
Phlegm prevails during the spring season, sain the morning and even- 
ing. 
There are specified nine sorts of diseases, in which there is no hope 
of recov 
On the’ 12 causes by which any of the dieasos o aused b of the 
three humours, is changed into another, as wind into ery wend phlegm, en 
press tse re classed unde two heads: heat and cold. ose, 
which wind an blithe egm prevail, being of tine wate, belong to ool. 
Blood and bile, Ags of natural fire, belong to heat. The diseases caused 
by the worms and the serum, belong both to cold and heat. 
Fourth Chapter. On the symptoms of diseases. On examining the 
