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228 TPIE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA . [Chap. X.
whom the assimilated food is followed by an acid reac-
tion, or of one who is fond of incongcnial and unhealthy
dietary, or whose fundamental principles are vitiated.
A child should not be given the breast until an adminis-
tered medicine is assimilated in its organism, lest this
should give rise to a violent aggravation of the pharmaco-
logical action of the medicine, as well as of the deranged
Doshas (Vdyu, Pitta, etc.), and the refuse matters (Malas)
of its body. 25.
lYIcmorabIC Verses : —The Doshas iVayu,
Pitta and Kapha) of a wet-nurse are aggravated by
ingestion of indigestible or incompatible food, or of those
articles which tend to derange the Doshas of the body,
and hence her milk may be vitiated. A child, fed on the
vitiated milk of a woman, vitiated by the deranged
Doshas owing to injudicious and intemperate eating
and living, falls an easy prey to physical disease, An
intelligent physician in such a case should devise means
for the purification of the milk as well as of the derang-
ed Doshas which account for such vitiation (inasmuch as
the medication of the child alone will not produce any
satisfactory effect). 26-27.
Infantile diseases and their Diagnosis
: —-A child constantly couches its diseased part or
organ and cries for the least touch (by another of that
part of its body). If the seat of disease be its head, the
child cannot raise nor move that organ and remains with
its eyes closely shut. A disease seated in its bladder
gives rise to retention of urine, thirst, pain and occa-
sional fainting fits. A retention of urine and stool,
discolouring of complexion, vomiting, distention of the
abdomen, and gurgling in the intestines indicate the
seat of the disease to be its Koshtha (colon). A
constant crying (and the child's refusal to be consoled)