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288 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. IIL
fragrance to the breath. It is one of the most powerful
remedial agents in disorders of the aggravated Vdyu
(diseases of the nervous system). It may be used
even by kings and for them it should be specially
prepared. 44-45.
The expressed oil of the seeds of the Trapusha,
Aksha and Piydla should be cooked with a decoction of
drugs of the Madhura group (Okolyddi gana) and with
ten times the quantity of milk. A quantity of lard if
available, should be poured into it (during the process of
cooking). It is an excellent medicated oil and used as
a potion for anointing, and as an errhine, Vasti-karma
and washes, it speedily brings about the union of
fractured bones. 46.
A physician should exert his utmost to guard against
the advent of any suppurative setting in in a fractured
bone, since a suppuration of the local veins, nerves and
muscles is difficult to cure. A complete union of a
fractured joint should be inferred from its painless or
unhurt character, from its full and perfect development
(leaving no detectable signs of its once fractured con-
dition)^ from the absence of all elevation (unevenness)
and from its perfect freedom in flexion and expansion,
etc. 47-48.
Thus ends the third Chapter of the Chikitsita Sihanam in the Sus'ruta
Samhita which deals with the medical treatment of fractures and dis-
locations.