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Dr. Hoernle —An instalment of the Bower Manuscript. [No. 3, 
mon, an equal quantity of Vrihati (Solanum indicum) and galena, made 
into a paste, may be used as a remedy in all diseases. 
(Verse 109.) Red oelire, rasot, 81 galena, realgar, calx of brass in 
equal parts, mixed with a little black pepper, a double portion of .. 
Fifth Leave: Reverse. 
(Verse 110.) With pepper and ealx one should boil Harita 82 on 
a slow fire together with clarified butter. This will make an ointment 
and paste for the eyelids. 88 
(Verse 111.) Listen to (the treatment of the hair and its diseases) 
as it is being explained by me . 
(Verse 112.) Derangement of the chyle, indulgence in sexual in¬ 
tercourse, and vitiation of the bile and blood cause premature grey 
hair, and in the cause of an old man it is due to old age. 
(Verses 113—115.) The constitution of a woman is generally 
phlegmatic; lying.enjoying, they discharge the vitiated 
menstrual blood. (114) Hence their scalp becomes relieved of the heat 
of their blood and bile, and thus they do not loose their hair, and 
therefore women are not bald-headed. (115) On the contrary the blood 
and bile of men become vitiated ; (this destroys) the roots of their hair, 
and the head becomes bald. 
(Verse 116.) Baldness, consisting in the entire loss of hair or in 
its becoming copper-coloured, if it is long established on the head, 
cannot be removed. But if it is of recent origin, it may be remedied and 
should be carefully attended to. 84 
81 On rasot or rasdnjana, an extract of Berberis Asiatica, see Dr. Dntt’s Hindu 
Mat. Med., p. 107. 
82 Harita is the name of gold, also of several plants, especially Phaseolus mungo. 
I do not know what may here be intended. 
83 On viddldka see Dutt’s Hindu Mat. Med., p. 18. 
84 Compare the Charaka, p. 798, where also three defects of the hair are men¬ 
tioned: khalitya ‘ baldness ’, palita ‘ grey hair’, and hari-ldman ‘red hair.’ The 
latter corresponds to the tdmra-bala of our MS., and is called indra-lupta in the 
Susruta and Yangasena. The latter two works have identical remarks on the sub¬ 
ject; see Susruta II, 13 (p. 288, verses 209, 30) and Vangasena, p. 724 (verses 134, 
135). They call the three diseases indra-lupta, lchdlitya and palita, and explain the 
former two kinds as two forms of loss of hair ( prachydvati rdmdni), and palita as 
making the hair grey (kdsdn pachati). I imagine the disease, intended by tdmra-bala, 
to be the “ scald-head ” ( Porrigo declavans), which causes the formation of a yellowish 
or reddish scurf on the scalp and a partial loss of hair. 
