54 Analysis of a Tibetan Medical Work. 
that of the chyle and the semen to one handful; that of the brain to @ 
— sattig that of the flesh = 500 handfuls ; —_ handful being as 
as ca closed once in a single han ie Vomen have an excess — 
of more on account of their thighs and breasts. 
There are 23 sorts of bones; in the bac ck:bone, 28 are distinguished: 
There are 24 ribs; 32 teeth; aa pi _— “ “ei irre are 12 large 
joints of limbs;—small joints, 250. sndons or sinews, 
and 900 nerves or fibres; 11,000 hairs on nae ant “a millions of pores 
of the hair on the body. There are five vital parts (or viscera) (as the 
heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and the reins be kidneys); six vessels, an and 
nine openings or holes.—In Jambudwipa the ance’ of a man’s height 
is one fathom ted — cubits—deformed bodies have only 34 cubits, 
measured by t 
With reapent i "the 2nd _ section, showing the state of the veins. — 
There are four kinds of veins or nerves 7a that of conception; 2, of 
sensation ; 3, of connexion, and 4, that of vitality 
The 1st’: From the oho there ace or sprea ad three veins OF — 
nerves, one of them ascends to the brain, and is acted on by the dull — 
part it, g ating t in the : Vea 
Another nerve (or vein) entering into the middle, forms the vital nerve, 
or its existen he vital nerv p and bl — 
ce 
that part of it, which causes bile, resides in the middle. The yet 
nerve (or vein) descends to the privy parts, and generates pen 
in the male and — That part of it, which produces wind, 
For rousing (or exciting) the — in their proper — there is in 
the brain a principal nerve, surrounded with 500 other smaller a 
Another nerve for making clear the organ of recollection @ or “menor re 
sides in the heart, surrounded with 500 other smaller 
Tha 
nerve, which cau h an 
of the body, resides in the navel, surrounded wit 
That nerve, ae causes th ase of children, and descen 
comprehends or aviodnasanes the whole body. 
The 3rd: The nerve of connexion consists of two kinds, vatoand 
black. There are 24 large veins (or nerves), which, like as so man 
nerves for making the connexion of the diseases of t 
vessels, pat 
There are 16 conspicuous veins connecting the outward limbs, 
77 others spreading from them, called M555 bleeding veins (that 
may occasionally be ne rer gah to let out blood 
There are 112 hurtful o r pestilential saés (or nerves); . ae 
nature, there are 189 others. Thence originate 120 in the fos ee 
d middle ee. that spread into 360 smaller ones. Then ga 
ones scene emp e body as with a net-work. nd from 
re 19 — working —. — like roots, descen’ | are 
the brain, privet n of nerves; from among them there are 13 tha’ 
hidden, and somnenl the intestines— it others, connecting the ou 
inte 
Parts, are visible ; from them spread 16 small tendons or i 
