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32 "The same process to be adopted in the case of gold and silver."

"Medicines are of two kinds: the one promotes the strength and vitality of the healthy, the other cures diseases.

"Whatever promotes longevity, retentive memory, health, virility, &c. is called Rasāyana."

"Of all cutting instruments and accessory cutting instruments, caustics are superior inasmuch as they perform the work of incisions, punctures and scarifications, relieve derangements of the three humours, viz., air, bile and phlegm, and uniformly affect the diseased part to which they are applied. Kshāra (caustics) are so called