14 Analysis of a Tibetan Medical Work. [Jan. 



following distinctions : cause and incident, nature, name, symptom, mode of 

 curing. 



13, 14. Farther explanations on the causes of the heat and cold, in fever. 



15. In the curing of a fever, in its beginning, or where heat has not yet taken 

 the upper hand, there are enumerated the following distinctions : cause and 

 incident, nature, name, division, symptom, mode of curing. 



16. In an increased or burning fever, the same distinctions are as before, except 

 a trifling division. 



17 to 20. On curing several kinds of fever, such as are : the sly, hidden, inveter- 

 ate, and the mixed ones. 



21. The curing of inflammation of any hurt or wounded part of the body, with 

 several distinctions ; and that of inward and outward hurt : the inwards are, the 

 viscera and the vessels ; the outward parts are, the flesh, bone, marrow, tendon, 

 and fibre. 



22. The curing of heat or fever (arising from the contest between wind, bile, and 

 phlegm), in which the mental faculties are troubled, with several distinctions to 

 be considered; and so there are 11 chapters on curing fever (heat and inflam- 

 mation). 



23. On curing epidemic maladies or infectious diseases, with several distinc- 

 tions and divisions ; as, 'ZJQj*^ a kind of pestilence of Nepad. 



24. On curing the small-pox: cause and effect, definition of small-pox, distinc- 

 tion, symptom, mode of curing ; distinction into white and black variolse, each 

 having three species. 



25. The curing of infectious diseases affecting the bowels (colic), with several 

 distinctions ; purging the viscera and the lower vessels, affecting with greater or 

 less vehemence ; and so there are eight kinds of diseases affecting the bowels. 



26. The curing of swellings in the throat (or of ulcers and inflammations), and 

 infective diseases, as the cholera, E|£| T £4 T ^C^'yCl T S^ ; the first has 4, the second 

 11, subdivisions, or minor distinctions. 



27. With respect to catarrh, are considered : cause and incident, kind, symptom, 

 mode of curing. And so are five chapters on infectious diseases, i*f^Sf"3j^ 

 to which belongs the cholera morbus also, E]^3j'g3| T Q]C] J ^'Q{C]y. 



28. In curing the upper part of the body, the head occupies the first place. 

 Here are considered : cause, circumstantial accident, distinction, symptom, mode 

 of curing. There are eight distinctions, as wind, &c. 



29. In curing the diseases of the eyes, are considered : cause, incident, 

 division, symptom, mode of curing, with 33 distinctions of opthalmic diseases. 



30. Diseases of the ear ; cause and incident, or accessory cause and effect, 

 division or distinction, symptom, mode of curing. Distinction into disease of 

 the ear, and deafness ; that has six, this four, kinds. 



31. Diseases of the nose: cause and incident, division, symptom, mode of 

 curing ; there are five divisions or distinctions. 



32. In the curing of the diseases of the mouth, there are to be considered : 

 cause and incidents, division, symptom, mode of curing. There is a six-fold 

 division ; as, the lip, the gum, &c. There are several distinctions of diseases, as 

 six of the teeth ; five of the tongue ; six of the palate, and seven of the throat. 



33. In curing the diseases of goitre or swelling in the fore-part of the neck, are 

 considered: cause and incident (or accessory causes), distinction, symptom, cure 



