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 Early Buddhist literature also furnishes us with abundant proofs of this nature. On going through the chapter on "Medicaments" in the Mahávagga, we are often reminded of the contents of the Susruta.One or two instances may be quoted here:—"Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu had a superfluity of humors in his body"—Vinaya Texts: pt. II. p. 60. From Pánini