CHAPTER VIII.
HINDOO WRITERS ON ÆTIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.
AFTER considering the Institutes of Medicine under the head of Sutrasthana, the early writers on Indian Medicine devoted their thought and attention to the investigation of the causes and symptoms of diseases, which they call Nidana. Among the Hindoo writers, Madhava has investigated at length the causes and symptoms of the largest number of diseases in all their varieties. To this head Sushruta has devoted sixteen chapters treating of the classification, causation, and symptoms of diseases, such as diseases caused by wind, haemorrhoids, urinary calculi, fistulae, diseases of skin, urethral discharges, abdominal tumours, abortion and unnatural labours, abscesses, erysipelas, carbuncles, tumours, scrotal tumours, fractures, and dislocations, diseases of the male
