THE
SUSHRUTA SAMHITA.
UTTARA-TANTARAM.
(SUPPLEMENTARY PART OF THE TREATISE).
CHAPTER I.
Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the diseases, viz., of the eye, etc. (Aupadravikam adhyayam). i.
Here commences that portion of the Susruta Samhita which is known as the Uttara Tantra (the supplementary part) to which references have been often made in the preceding one hundred and twenty chapters, as the fit place wherein to revert in detail to the topics cursorily mentioned therein. This part comprises within it the specific descriptions of a large and a varied number of diseases, viz., those which form the subject matter of the Salakya-Tantra (Diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat) as narrated by the king of Videha; the aetiology and symptomatology, etc. of diseases peculiar to infants and women (Kaumsara-bhritya), the pathology, etc., of those diseases mentioned in the six books of the Practice of Medicine par excellence (Kaya-chikitsa) compiled by the holy sages of old and diseases known as Upasarga {e.g. Bhutopasarga
