An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita with a full and comprehensive introduction additional texts different readings notes comparative views index glossary and plates

In the introduction of the present volume we would draw the attention of the readers to the fact that Ayurveda is not at all an encyclopmdic work —an Encyclopaedia of the Indian * Berdoe says :—What is known as the Humoral Pathology formed the most essential part of the system of the Dogmatics. [...] The source of the bile is the liver of the mucus the head of the water the spleen. [...] vii of dead body (not of living body as proclaimed by. Herophilus) nay the Avagharshana which brings into view The knowledge the layers of the epidermis and the of the Molecular dermis the number and branches of Construction of the body is all that is blood-vessels and nerves that lie embewanted. [...] Treatment of S'arkararvuda etc.—Treatment of P6cla-dari etc.—Treament of Alasa and Kadara.—Treatment of Baldness and Alopecia etc.— Treatment of Wrunaka etc.—Treatment of Jatu-mani etc—Treatment of Yuv&ia-pidaki—Treatment of the Retroflexion of the Prepuce.—Treatment of the Constriction or Stricture of the Urethra—Its surgical treatment.— Treatment of the Stricture of the Anus etc.—Treatme [...] and Medoja types of Oshtha-kopa--Treatment of the diseases of the Dantmula.—Treatment of Danta-Veshta etc.—Paridara—S'aushira—Upakus'a—Danta-VaidarbhAdhimarnsa.—Treatment of Danta-nadi.—Treatment of the diseases of the different types of Tooth proper.—Treatment of Tongue-diseaseTreatment of VAtaja Pittrij a and Kaphaja types of tongue-diseaseTreatment of the different types of Td1u-ga