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Chap.XII.] agents, indicated in the case of a bilious erysipelas, should be resorted to in the present instance as well.

A plaster composed of bee's wax, Madhukam, Sarjarasa, Manjisthá, (red) Chandanam and Murvá pasted together and boiled with clarified butter should be regarded as beneficial to burns of all types to promote rapid healing.

In the case of a burn from boiling oil, clarified butter or such like substances should be externally applied and all measures which promote dryness of the part (Ruksha) should be adopted without the least hesitation.

Now we shall describe the symptoms which become manifest in a person [whose nostrils and larynx] are choked with smoke:—The respiration becomes laboured and hurried and the abdomen is distended accompanied by constant sneezing and coughing. The eyes look red and seem as if burning. The patient breathes out smoke and fails to catch any other smell than that of it. The sense of hearing is considerably affected; the sense of taste becomes inert; fever, thirst and a burning sensation supervene; and the patient drops down utterly unconscious.

Now hear me discourse on the course of medical treatment to be adopted in the case of one