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27th Chapter. — On the manner of curing diseases. How ? by whom ? with 

 what ? The measure or length of time of curing. 



28th Chapter. — Detailed description of the curing of diseases. 



29th Chapter. — Common and peculiar mode of curing diseases. 



30M Chapter. — Howto cure wind, bile, phlegm, is separately exposed or taught. 



31st Chapter. — The requisite qualities in a physician, that he should be well 

 acquainted with the theory and practice of medicine ; and be an impartial, up- 

 right, good-hearted man. 



Third Part. 



Containing a full explanation of Diseases. 



Chapter!. Exhortation to the teacher (Sha'kya) to deliver a treatise (^S) 

 or oral instruction on the manner of curing diseases. 



2. The curing of diseases arising from wind (or windy humours). There 

 are five distinctions: 1, causes; 2, accessory cause and effect; 3, division; 4, 

 symptoms ; 5, manner of curing (diseases arising from wind). 



3. In the curing of diseases arising from (or caused by) bile, there are the 

 following distinctions : 1, cause ; 2, accessory cause and effect; 3, division; 4, 

 symptoms; 5, manner of curing; 6, and stopping or hindering its pro- 

 gress. 



4. In the curing of diseases caused by phlegm (or phlegmatical humours), are 

 considered : cause, accessory cause and effect, division, symptoms, and manner 

 of curing. 



5. In the curing of diseases caused by the gathering together of the three 

 humours (wind, bile, phlegm,) and of blood, there are the following distinctions 

 or considerations : cause, incident or accessory cause and effect, place, time, kind 

 or genus, symptoms, manner or mode of curing, and the stopping of it for the 

 future. 



6. In the curing of indigestion, the root (or primary cause) of inward diseases, 

 there are the following distinctions or sections : cause, incident or accessory 

 cause and effect, manner of its arising, division, symptoms, remedy or mode of 

 curing. 



7. In the curing of a swelling (or a hard conglomeration or excrescence), there 

 is treated of: cause, incident, division, place, manner of arising, symptom, mode 

 of curing it, 



8. The curing of white swellings, a kind of dropsy. Here are considered : 

 cause, incident, division, symptom, mode of curing. 



9. In the curing of another kind of dropsy (qX/D'AO there are the same dis- 

 tinctions as before. 



10. The curing of dropsy is taught, by exposing the cause and incident, division, 

 manner of arising, symptom, mode of curing, stopping or cessation. 



11. In the curing of phthisis or consumption of the lungs, %\ w &\ .5^ T db^ T £<f T 

 sT^'gVZ^, there are the following distinctions : cause, and accessory cause or 

 effect, division, symptom, mode of curing. And thus there are six chapters on 

 curing inward diseases. 



12. In curing feverish diseases (where heat prevails) in general, there are the 



