THE INDIA REVIEW 
OF WORKS ON SCIENCE 
AND 
JOURNAL OF FOREIGN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. 
EMBRACING 
MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, PHYSICS, &c. 
REVIEW. 
Journal of the Asiatic Society, 1835. 
Analysis of a Tibetan work. By M. 
Alexander Csoma De Koros. 
(Continued from ly age 81.J 
Our author’s view and doctrine of the 
natural constitution of the human body are 
exceedingly curious. He describes the man- 
ner of the existence of the body under four 
distinct heads ; the first embraces the quantity 
of the several constituent parts of the body 
and the existence of those parts on which 
the body depends ; the second refers to the 
state of the veins and nerves ; the third 
regards the nature of those diseases whieh are 
pronounced as enemies to the body ; and 
the fourth alludes to the apertures for 
the circulation of the air. 
Thus then the quantity of wind of the 
body is specified, the bile, the phlegm, the 
blood, the urine, the serum, the chyle, and 
the semen have their definite proportions. 
The following is the author’s idea of the 
anatomy of the human body. 
“ Thei’e are 23 sorts of bories ; in theback- 
bone, 28 aredistinguished. There are 24 ribs ; 
32 teeth ; 360 pieces of bones. There 
are 12 large joints of limbs ; — small joints, 
250. There are 16 tendons or sinews, and 
900 nerves or fibres; 11,000 hairs on the 
head 1 1 millions of pores of the hair on the 
body. There are five vital parts (or viscera) 
(as the heart, lungs,- liver, spleen, and the 
I’eins or kidneys) ; six vessels, and nine open- 
ings or holes. — In Jumhudwipa the measure 
of a man’s height is one fathom or four 
cubits — deformed bodies have only 3| cubits, 
measured by their own. 
With respect to the 2nd section, showing 
the state of the veins. There are four kinds 
of veins or nerves : 1, that of conception ; 2, 
of sensation ; 3, of connexion, and 4, that of 
vitality. 
The 1 st : From the navel there arise or 
spread three veins or nerves, one of them 
ascends to the brain, and is acted on by the 
dull part of it, generating the phlegm in the 
upper part of the body. Another nerve (or 
vein) entering into the middle, forms the vital 
nerve, and depends for its existence on the 
vital nerve of passion and blood ; that part of 
it, which causes bile, resides in the middle. 
The third nerve (or vein) descends to the privy 
parts and generates desire both in the male 
and female. That parts of it, which produces 
wind, resides in the lower extremity. 
The 2nd; There are four kinds of the 
nerves of existence or sensation. 
For rousing (or exciting) the organs, in 
their proper place, there is in the brain a prin- 
cipal nerve, surrounded with 500 other smaller 
ones. Another nerve for making clear the 
organ of recollection or memory, resides in 
the heart, surrounded with 500 other smaller 
ones. 
That nerve, which causes the increase and 
renovation of the aggregate of the body, 
resides in the navel, surrounded with 500 other 
smaller ones. 
That nerve, which causes the increase of 
children, and descendants, resides in the privy 
member, together with 500 other smaller 
ones — and comprehends or encompasses the 
whole body. 
The 3rd ; The nerve of connexion consists 
of two kinds, white and black. There are 24 
large veins (or nerves), which, like as so 
many branches ascending the principal stem 
of the vital principle, serve for increasing the 
flesh and the blood. There are eight large 
hidden veins or nerves for making the con- 
nexions of the diseases of the viscera and 
vessels. 
There are 16 conspicuous veins connecting 
the outward limbs, and 77 others spreading 
from them, called bleeding veins (that may 
occasionally be opened to let out blood.) 
There are 112 hurtful or pestilential veins 
(or nerves) ; of a mixed nature, there are 189 
others. Thence originate 120 in the outer, 
inner, and middle parts, that spread into 360 
