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Chap.VII.] tumours, is mouthed like the half of the kernel found in the inside of a Jujube-stpne, with a little dip in the middle, its lip or end having a keen or sharp edge. The ends of the type of probe used in applying Anjanams (medicated collyria) to the eyelids are wrought into two small round lobes like the Matara pulse and are blunted, while the sort of probe used in cleansing the urethra, is made round like the end of the stem of a Malati flower.

The Upa-yantras or minor surgical accessories—include such substances as rope, the Venika (braided hair), silk thread, the bark and the inner-skin of trees, creepers, linen, Ashthila (stones), large oval shaped pebbles, a hammer, the palms of the hands, the soles of feet, fingers, tongue, the teeth, the nails, hair, the mane of horses, branches of trees, a magnet, alkali, fire, and medicine, and such acts as spitting, straining (kunthanam), exhilaration and intimidation.

Metrical texts:—These accessories should be applied to the entire body of a patient, or to any part thereof such as, the arteries, the viscera, or the joints, according to the necessities of each case to be determined by the surgeon.

The Functions of Surgical Instruments:—are striking out (Nirghatanam-lit:—withdrawing a Shalyam by moving it to and fro), injection or filling, binding, up-lifting, cutting and