Sushruta Samhita

Calcutta: No. 10, Kashi Ghose's Lane, 1907. — 680 p.An English Translation of The Sushruta Samhita
Based on original sanskrit textOrigin of the Ayurveda
Initialiton of a student of the Ayurveda
Classification of the Ayurveda &c
General explanations
Preliminary surgical measures
Charecteristic features of the different seasons of the year and their influence on health and drugs
Surgical appliances, their use and construction
Surgical instruments, and their names, use and construction
Practice of surgery
Essential qualiffcations of a physician before he formally enters his profession
Mode of preparing alkalis, and their comparative exellence as incising, excising or scraping agents
Actual cauteries
Leeches and their use
Origin and characteristic features of lymph ehyle
Development or non-development of the excrements and constituent principles of the body
Piercing and bandaging of the lobules of ears
Distinction between suppurating and non-suppurating swellings
Dressings and bandages of ulcers
Nursing and management of an Ulcer-patient
Salutary and Non-salutary effects of regimen, etc
The deranged Vayu, Pittam, etc., as the exciting causes of ulcers
Secretions from boils and ulcers
Prognosis in ulcer cases
Classification of diseases according as they are medical or surgical
Eight different forms of surgical operations
Exploration of splinters, deep-seated in the organism
Extraction of splinters
Favourable or unfavourable prognosis of an ulcer
Favourable or unfavourable prognosis in diseases as known from messengers, omens, birds of happy or evil augury
Prognosis that can be obtained from perverted functions of the five sense organs
Prognosis to be gathered from the altered condition of features
Prognosis based on the perversion of the external appearances of the body and other Arishta symptoms
Incurable diseases, and Incurable symptoms developed in connection with diseases of the nervous systems, morbid urethal discharges, Leprosy, Haemorrhoids
Mode of preserving the life of a king whose soldiers are on the march
Clinical Observations
Miscillaneous remedies for swellings
Destructive traits of the different king of soil commended for the growth or culture of medicinal herbs
A General Classification of drugs, according to their therapeutical properites
Drugs possessed of cathartic or soothing effects
Drugs and their flavours, virtues, potencies, and chemical actions
Specific properties of drugs
Specific properties of flavours
Mode of administering emetics
Choice of purgatives
Rules to be observed in respect of liquid substances
Different kinds of food and drink