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Chap.XIX.] recovery, and beguiled with pleasant and congenial discourses, soon gets rid of his complaint.

Morning and evening, the physicians and the Brahmans should perform the rites of benediction, over him, as laid down in the Rik, Yajuh, Saman and the Atharva Vedas.

Metrical Texts:—For ten consecutive days, the room of the patient should be diligently fumigated, morning and evening, with the fumes of mustard, Arishta-leaves, clarified-butter and salt made into a kind of incense stick.

Drugs such as Chhatra, Atichhatra, Languli, Jatila, Bramhacharini, Lakshmi, Guha, Atiguha, Shata-viryaya, Sahasra-viryaya and white mustard seeds should be placed on the head of the patient.

Metrical Texts:—The patient should be fanned with blowing chowries so that the ulcer may not be in any way thrashed or lacerated during the fanning. The ulcer should not be scratched or pressed. The patient should be carefully watched, while asleep. Demons, that get abroad in the night, fly from the presence of an ulcer-patient protected as above, as herds of deer fly from the forest where lions are found.

Regimen of diet and conduct:—An ulcer-patient living on a diet consisting of old and