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1891.] Dr. Hoernle— An instalment of the Bower Manuscript. 
(Verse 101.) If through, the heat of a fire the face-plaster of a 
patient has melted, or if he has allowed it to become dry, then abhilu 76 
and the other above mentioned diseases are said to break out. These 
should he relieved in the manner above explained. 
(Verse 102.) Night-blindness, dimness of the eyes, inflammation 
of the head, inflammation of the eyes caused by deranged bile, moreover 
any other evils affecting the skin of the face, are instantly relieved 
through the application of a face-plaster. 
(Verse 103.) In the case of any disorder of the eyes due to de¬ 
rangement of the phlegm and wind, in the case of the application of a 
secretory to the nose 78 of people suffering from catarrh, in the case of 
lock-jaw, and in the case of diseases of the head, it is said that face- 
plasters should be avoided. 
(Verse 104.) A face-plaster should be made of the thickness of 
a quarter augula ; the middle sort should have the thickness of a third 
of an aiigula, and the thickest should measure (half an aiigula ?) 79 . 
(Verses 105—107.) (I) Liquorice, Rodhra ( Symplocos racemosa ), the 
three myrobalans 80 , leaf-stalk of the lotus, candied sugar, Kancliana ( Ban - 
hinia variegata) , and red ochre; (II) Leaves and bark of cinnamon, carda¬ 
moms, aloe-wood, Deodar, Punarnava ( Boerhaavia diffusa?), Vyaglrrana- 
kha 74 , and galena; (106) (III) Realgar, orpiment, Vrihati ( Solarium 
indicum ), and cinnamon, Mamsi (Nardostacliys jatamansi), Harenu (Piper 
aurantiacum) , and Paripelava 70 ; (IV) Galena, red ochre, Katphala 
(Myrica sepida ), and S'ariva 80 mixed with sugar: (107.) the four mix¬ 
tures, severally described in the foregoing half-verses, relieve diseases 
caused by the derangement of phlegm, blood, bile and wind; or they 
may be applied externally as pastes all about the eye up to the roots of 
the eye-lashes. 
(Verse 108.) Rodhra (Symplocos racemosa ), iron smeared with a 
little clarified butter and finely powdered, or chebulic myrobalan, cinna- 
a flow of secretion from the nose and thus to relieve cerebral congestion. Medicated 
oils applied for a similar purpose are called Vrinhana. In affections of the head, 
eyes or nose, the fumes are drawn in through the nose. See Dr. Dutt’s Hindu Mat. 
Med., pp. 17 and 20. 
79 This verse occurs, almost verbally the same, in the Vangasena, in the chapter 
on the treatment of minor diseases [kshudra-roga) , p. 715, verse 44. Its second half¬ 
line there runs thus: madhyamas=tu tri-bhdgah sydd-uttamo^rdh-arngulft bhavSt. 
There is also a warning given there against putting on or keeping on dry plasters, 
corresponding to verse 101 of our manuscript.—An ‘ ahgula’ is f inches or 2 centi¬ 
meters. The thickness of the ordinary plaster accordingly should be of an inch 
or ■§■ centimetre; that of the thickest would be f of an inch or 1 centimeter. 
80 There are two different plants called by this name. Here the Ichnocarpus 
frutescens is probably intended ; see Dr. Dutt’s Hindu Mat. Med., p. 196. 
