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Analysis of a Tibetan Medical Work. 55 
With big to the third poi 
Diseases of ¢ yop oy bpm in the flesh, fat. bone, tendons, 
nerve, Fateetinde , and vi 
Su ch di igeases ar wasaiited in the flesh, 45; in the fat, 8; in the bone, 
32; in the tendons or sinews, 14; in the intestines, 13; in the veins, 190. 
On the head, coat are 62; on the neck, 33; in the trunk of the body, 
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learned ee The may be cured by others also ; since they 
are of no great c anaes though "ehiey ies be reckoned among dis- 
eases of magnitude. 
With apa to the fourth poi 
f the several orifices 0 + pansies tor the conveyance of air, blood, 
pt gs and ht both within and without, are enumerated 13 in males, 
males 
Throug eh inconvenient food and exercise, these passages being hurt, 
there arises a distemper of the body, by the humours being either too 
much increased, issued, or hindered ; or by taking wrong direction, con- 
hat, is produced. When the Sag le re clean, and free from any 
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L state. 
pter.—Characteristic ciateipel on of the body. There 1s a 
two fo division : 1, parts which are subject to injury (t body). 
ee they are injured (bad humours or di s 
Bins, of thos that are subj These are thus distinguished : 
ect to injury 
the supports (or those parts which keep the body together), seven in 
number; as, Sa chyle, blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow, and semen. 
Excrements, as ordure, urine, and sweat; also the dirt of the icon and 
pare the nailas “aid gett impurity issuing from other openings o 
wet tly. The office of a seven supports of the body, and of the three 
ehearerse AN is thus deser 
The meat and drink. éfeer being digested in the grote are changed 
into chyle and feces. These turn in to ordure and urine, that is, for 
the iatestion of the y, by increasing rae blood. The blo od preserving 
he r humidity of y> ps up life, and increases the 
flesh esh covering and cleansing the body, bot thin and with- 
, produces the fat. 2% the whole body unctuous, and 
the increase of the bon is p-rts the body an reases the 
marrow. is improves oC essential sap of the body, and produces the 
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semen virile. This jeceeatcnee to the well-being of the whole body, and to 
the cha peecr en of a 
vice, veatened ‘by the ech is : the ordure serves for the ee @ 
port of the bowels — By urine, morbid humours are carried off ; 
it serves also f eauppar of shia a chinna feces, and carries off the 
putrid thick sedim vel 
The o of ied is to soften the skin, and to change - obstruct- 
ed pores of the hair body. 
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Fire-warm 4° 4 is the common gentle warmth, or heat, of 
the whole body. The warmth rd the stomach is the principal cause of the 
digestion of meat and drink of every kind. If this — th is i 
state, the digestion of meat and drink is easy; no 
the lustre of the face, the ine the Scoporia of the body abd life, go 
armth of the renga must be kept up (or if 
