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enjoys a sort of immunity from their injurious action in the same manner as, a strong man, who makes himself successively accustomed to the action of the three deranged humours of his body, is not easily affected by their pathogenetic properties.

Thus ends the forty-second Chapter of the Sutrasthanam in the Sushruta Samhita, which treats of the specific properties of flavours.