CHAPTER V.
PRINCIPLES OF HYGIENE AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE HINDOOS.
THE importance of a knowledge of the characteristics of the country one lives in attracted the early attention of the ancients. Countries were generally arranged into three classes, namely, Anupa, Jangala, and Mishra. Anupa is a moist and marshy country intersected by numerous rivers, lakes, and mountains ; and containing swans, cranes, geese, hares, pigs, buffaloes, deer and other wild animals, as well as a variety of fruit and vegetables, including paddy, sugarcane and plantain tree. In such a country "phlegmatic" diseases and "affections of the wind" are very common. Jangala is a dry country where water is scarce ; where Shami (Acacia farnesiana), Kareera (Capparis apliylla}, Arka (Calatropis gigantea), Peelo (Salvadora
