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VI.] extremities — all movable — 59 in the trunk, and 80 in the head and neck. The joints are bound together by 900 (ligaments), thus distributed : 600 in the upper and lower extremities, 230 in the trunk, and 70 in the head.

There are altogether 700 vessels in the body, with sixteen larger ones called, and twenty-four called. Wind, bile, blood and phlegm have each a number of vessels assigned to them. The human body also comprises sixteen or plexuses, six  (larger glands ?), four  or chordlike structures, seven  or sutures which should never be bored, fourteen bone-groups, fourteen  or supporters of the groups and seven layers of skin. The names of the seven layers are : —

, containing the vessels. Its thickness is one eighteenth of a barley corn. It is so called because it "shines" by the bile called Bhrajaka.

(blood-red) is the sixteenth part of barley in thickness. It is in this layer that pimples originate.

(white) is of a white colour, and is one-twelfth part of a barley grain in thickness. It is the seat of cutaneous eruptions.