Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

CHAPTER 11.
Now we shall discourse on the medical treatment of
recent or traumatic wounds or sores (Sadyovrana-
Chikitsa). i,
Metrical Texts; -The holy Dhanvantari, the
foremost of the pious and the greatest of all discoursers,
thus discoursed to his disciple Sus'ruta, the son of
Vis'vdmitra. 2.
Different Shapes of Sores :— I shall de-
scribe the shapes of the various kinds of Vrana (sores
or wounds) caused by weapons of variously shaped edges
in the different parts of the human body. Traumatic
ulcers have a variety of shapes. Some of these are
elongated, others are rectangular, or triangular, or
circular, while some are crescent shaped, or extended, or
have a zigzag shape, and some are hollow in the middle
like a saucer, and lastly some have she shapes of a
barley corn (bulged out at the middle). An abscess
or a swelling, due to the several Doshas and which
spontaneouly bursts out, may assume any of the aforesaid
forms, while the one effected by a surgeon's knife should
never have a distorted or an improper shape. A surgeon
thoroughly familiar with the shapes of ulcers is never
puzzled at the sight of one of a terrible and distorted
shape. 3 — 5.
Physicians of yore have grouped these variously
shaped traumatic ulcers under six broad sub-heads, such
as the Chhinna (cut), Bhinna (punctured or perforated),
Viddha (pierced), Kshata (contused), Pichchita (crushed),
and the Ghrishta (mangled or lacerated) according to
their common features and I shall describe their
symptoms. 6.
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