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HINDU CHEMISTRY
"The same process to be adopted in the case of gold and silver."[1]
Rasāyana Defined
"Medicines are of two kinds: the one promotes the strength and vitality of the healthy, the other cures diseases.
"Whatever promotes longevity, retentive memory, health, virility, &c. is called Rasāyana."[2]
THE SUSRUTA
Preparation and Use of Alkalies and Alkaline Caustics.[3]
"Of all cutting instruments and accessory cutting instruments, caustics are superior inasmuch as they perform the work of incisions, punctures and scarifications, relieve derangements of the three humours, viz., air, bile and phlegm, and uniformly affect the diseased part to which they are applied. Kshāra (caustics) are so called
- ↑ Chikitsá. Ch. I. 5, pp. 497-98.
- ↑ Ibid Ch. I. pp. 2-6.
- ↑ We have adopted Udoy Chand Dutta's Translation of Chs. XI and XIV with certain corrections here and there.
