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máiá (eye-lashes) should be all removed and the affected eye-lid having been carefully secured with three hooks (Vadiśa) should be rubbed with pasted Haritaki and Tuvaraka (Lodhra). The four aforesaid measures*^[1] as well as purgatives, eye-drops (Áśchyotana), medicinal snuffs, inhalations (fumigations), Plasters, Collyrium, Sneha and Rasa-kriyá, should be likewise held as beneficial †^[2] in cases of Pakshma-kopa. 3-5.

Thus ends the sixteenth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Sus'ruta Samhitá which treats of the remedies of Pakshma-kopa.

1. * The four measures are (a) operation, (b) cauterisation with fire, (c) cauterisation with alkali, and (d) application of medicinal drugs.
2. † It should be noted that this disease cannot be radically cured, but is amenable only to palliative treatments ().