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51. In curing vomiting, are considered : cause and accidents, &c. four, with 

 four distinctions of that distemper, as wind, &c. 



52. In curing purging diseases (or dysentery), are considered: cause, &c. 

 four, with four distinctions of that distemper, &c. 



53. The curing of obstruction of stools, or of evacuation, four things to be con- 

 sidered, and five kinds of that distemper are enumerated. 



54. In curing dysury (or difficulty of making urine), is treated of the cause 

 and accidents, &c. four, with several distinctions of the kinds of that distemper. 



55. In curing the frequent discharge of urine ; cause, &c. four, with the three 

 kinds of that distemper, arising from phlegm, bile, and wind ; phlegm has again 

 10 distinctions. 



56. In curing the disease called the " Indian heat," (very dangerous to 

 Tibetans, by causing excessive heat and frequent evacuations, of which many die 

 who visit India,) are considered : cause, &c. four, with four distinct divisions of 

 that distemper. 



57. In curing the swelling or enlargement of the feet, are considered : cause, 

 &c. four, with four distinctions of that disease. 



58. In curing the gout 3[W'3 are considered: cause, &c. four, with six 

 distinctions of that painful distemper. 



59. In the curing of diseases arising from the serum or watery parts of the 

 blood (§'^1, yellow water, bad or corrupt humours), are considered: the man- 

 ner of its origin, its division, symptom, mode of curing, with several distinctions. 



60. The curing of the disease called " the white vein," ^'^^JX,with several 

 divisions and distinctions. 



61. The curing of cutaneous diseases. Of these there are several divisions and 

 distinctions. 



62. The curing of miscellaneous diseases of the smaller kind : such as con- 

 traction or sinking of the sinews ; dysentery ; vomiting ; any hurt caused by 

 fire ; hurt or wound made with a needle ; or when a needle or the iron-point 

 of an arrow happen to be swallowed ; choaking or suffocation ; on the 

 stopping of any thing in the throat, as, a beard of corn, bone, fish-prickle ; the 

 entering or swallowing in of a spider or scorpion ; intoxication ; stiffness of the 

 neck ; ill smell of the body ; hurt of the hands and feet caused by cold and snow 

 the creepitg of any insect into the ear ; the swelling of the teat of a woman'. 

 The curing of all such diseases is called the cure of small diseases. Thus there 

 are 1 9 chapters on minute diseases. 



The healing of wounds, sores, or ulcers. 



63. The curing of ulcers (Q3<V) here are considered : cause, &c. four, with 

 several distinctions. 



64. The curing of the hemorrhoids (piles or emerods in the fundament 

 ff]^C'Ql|*(): cause, &c. four, with six distinctions. 



^ 65. The curing of St. Anthony's fire, (any swelling full of heat and redness, 

 STS^): cause, &c. four, with several distinctions, and the places (or parts) 

 where generally they occur. 



66. The curing of the Surya disease (^X'^Q'^j^) affecting the lungs, liver, 

 &c. its beginning, &c. four, with some distinctions. 



67. The curing of cancerous or virulent bad sores or ulcers : cause, &c. four, 

 with eight distinctions. 



