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264 THE SUSHRUTA SAMIIITA. [Chap. I.
of doing any mischief thereby. Recipes consisting
of rare or a large number of drugs or ingredients,
should be made up with as many of them as would be
available in the absence of all of them, as mentioned
in the present work, A drug belonging to any parti-
cular Gana or group if separately described as non-
efficacious to any specific disease, should be omitted
whereas a drug not belonging to a group may be added
to it if it is elsewhere laid down as positively beneficial
thereto. 11 5-1 17.
Upa.Clra.va. : — 'The distressing supervening symp-
toms which are found to attend a case of ulcer, are quite
different from those of an ulcer-patient. Those which
confine themselves solely to the ulcer are five in all
smell, colour, etc., and those which are exclusively mani-
fest in the patient are fever, diarrhoea, hiccup, vomit-
ing, fainting fits, aversion to food, cough, difficult
breathing, indigestion and thirst. The medical treat-
ment of ulcers though described in detail in the present
chapter, will be further dealt with in the next chapter
on Sadyo-Vrana. 118-120.
Thus ends the first Chapter of the Chikitsita-Sthanam in the Sus'ruta
Samhita which deals with the treatment of the two kinds of ulcer.
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