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252 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. I.
drugs with an admixture of Karpdsa-phala*. An
intelligent Surgeon should purify an ulcer with raised
flesh, and which is dry and is attended with scanty
secretion with an application of medicated mustard oil.
An indurated ulcer, refusing to be purified with the fore-
going medicated oils, should be purified with a duly
prepared decoction of the drugs enumerated before
(Sutra, chap. 38,— the Salas^radi group) and prepared in
the following manner of Rasa-kriyai. A decoction of
the said drugs duly prepared should be saturated with
an after-throw of Hatitdla^ Manahs'ild^ Kdsisa and
Sattrdshtra earth, and well compounded together ; the
preparation should also be mixed with the expressed
juice of Mdtidunga and with honey. The medicine thus
prepared should be applied to the ulcer on every third
or fourth day. 59.
Deep-j* and foul-smelling ulcers covered with layers
of deranged fat (phlegmonous ulcer) should be purified
by the learned physician with the powders of the drugs
with which the purifying plug or the lint has been
enjoined to be plastered (Ajagandha, &c.). Decoctions
of the drugs which are possessed of the virtue of setting,
in a process of granulation (Ropana' in an ulcer, sucn
as Vata, &c., as stated before, should be used by a
surgeon (Vaidya) after it had been found to have been
thoroughly purified. Medicated plugs, composed of
drugs possessing healing properties (such as, Sotna,Amritd,
As'vagandhd, etc) should be inserted in deep-seated ulcers,
when cleansed and unattended with pain. 60-62.
* The total weight of the purifying drugs should be equal to that of
the Karpasa-phala alone and they should be boiled together with four times
their qnantity of clarified butter and with sixteen times of water.
1 There is a different reading of "Agambhira" in place of "Gabhira,"
but Gayi thinks the emendation undesirable.