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THE
SUSRUTA SAMHITA
GHIKITSA-STUANAM.
(Section of Therapeutics).
CHAPTER I.
Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment
of the two kinds of inflamed ulcers (Dvivraniya
Chlkitsitam). i.
Ulcers may be grouped under two head? according
as they are Idiopathic or Traumatic in their oiigin.
The first group includes within its boundary all ulcers
that are caused through the vitiated condition of the
blood or the several deranged conditions of the Vayu,
Pitta and Kapha, or are due to their concerted
action (Sannipata), while the second group embraces
those which are caused by the bites of men, beasts,
birds, ferocious animals, reptiles or lizards, or by a
fall, pressure and blow, or by fire, alkali, poison, or
irritant drugs, or through injuries inflicted by pointed
wood, skeletal bones* horns, discus, arrows, axes,
tridents, or Kiintas (a kind of shovel\ or such other
weapons. Although both these classes of ulcers possess
many features in common, they have been grouped
under two distinct heads on account of the diversity of
their origin, the difference in remedial measures to be
adopted in their treatment, and the variation in their
* Fragments of broken pottery.—Dallana.