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With respect to the first there are specified three sorts of depuratory medica- 

 ments, the purging medicaments are of four kinds, the emetics are of two sorts. 



With respect to physical (or chirurgical) operation, against wind : the smear- 

 ing of the body with butter, &c. and cauterising in the Hor (or Turkish) manner. 

 Against bile : phlebotomy, and cold water (or bathing in ditto). Against phlegm : 

 warm applications, and cauterising. 



Specifications of the several kinds of cures against wind, bile, and phlegm. 

 They amount to 98 (compared to so many leaves). If the physician is skilful and 

 diligent in his application, and the patient obedient and respectful, so will the 

 latter soon be delivered from disease. 



Sixth Chapter. Recapitulation of the three last chapters. According to the 

 former metaphor or allegory of the Indian fig-tree, there are three roots (or 

 trunks) : 1, the root, place, or ground of the disease; 2, that of the symptoms, 

 and 3, that of the manner of curing. 



There arise from the first trunk (or root) two stems : that of the unchanged 

 state of the body, and that of the changed or diseased state of the body. 



From the 2nd trunk (or root) there arise three stems, namely : those of looking 

 on, feeling, and asking (or of inspection of the tongue and urine ; of the feeling 

 of the pulse ; and of asking after the circumstances of the disease). 



On the 3rd trunk there arise four stems : those of the food; of the manner of 

 living or conduct of life ; of the medicaments used ; and of the operations per- 

 formed. Therefore, from the three trunks (or roots) their arise nine stems. 



The number of the boughs or branches : 



Those branching from the stem of the unchanged body are : disease, the seven 

 supports of the body, and the faeces. 



On the stem denoting the changed or diseased state of the body, there are the 

 following 9 boughs : cause of disease, accessory causes, beginning or injured parts, 

 place, way, time of arising (or of the fit), fruit or consequence, causes of transition 

 from one into another disease ; the reduction of all diseases to heat and cold. 



On the stem denoting the symptoms of diseases, there arise the following eight 

 boughs : 2 of inspecting the tongue and urine. Of feeling the pulse, there are 3 : 

 wind-pulse, bile-pulse, and phlegm-pulse. And in asking after the circumstances 

 of the disease, there are 3. Altogether eight. 



On the stem denoting the manner of curing, there arise the following boughs 

 or branches : 3 of food or meat ; 3 of drink or potion ; 3 of the manner of living 

 or of the conduct of life ; 6 of physic with respect to taste and efficacy ; 6 of the 

 assuaging mixtures, with respect to taste and efficacy ; 3 of depuratory physic. 

 There are also 3 boughs of medical (or chirurgical) operations. Thus in all 

 there are 47 boughs or branches. 



The number of leaves (or of leafy branches) issuing from the 47 boughs : 



1st. On the top of the unchanged stem, the enumeration of 25 diseases. 



2nd. On the top of the stem denoting the changed or diseased state of the 

 body, 63 symptoms or tokens of indisposition. 



3rd. On the top of the stem of inspection (or examination of the tongue and 

 urine), 6 branches or leaves of inspection. 



4th. On the top of the stem of feeling, three sorts of pulse (or three manners of 

 beating of the pulse). 



5th. On the top of the stem of asking the patient about the circumstances of 

 the disease, 29 questions. 



