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Chap.XXVII.] penetrated into the deeper tissues of flesh, should be extracted by setting up suppuration in the affected locality. The putrid flesh would loosen the fixture of the Shalyam, the weight of the secreted pus and blood causing it to drop down.

The seat or the locality of a fixed Shalyam should be opened by an incision in the event of its not being ejected even after the establishment of the local suppuration. If the Shalyam fails to come out even after the incision, the affected part should be pressed with the fingers, or medicines, endued with the virtue of exerting pressure, should be applied over its surface. A particle of any fine matter, accidentally dropped into the eye, should be removed with sprays of cold water, or by blowing into it with the mouth, or by rubbing it with hair or the fingers.

A residue of digested food or mucous, a remnant of any food matter (Ahdrashesha) misdirected into the nostrils, or any small splinter loosely pricking thereto (Anu-shalyam), should be expelled by breathing hard, or by coughing upward through the nostrils (Utkasha), or by blowing through the nose. A morsel of food, acting as an obstructing Shalyam in the cavity of the stomach (Amashaya), should be ejected by rubbing (Pratimarsha) the fingers against the lining of the throat, or against the region of the epiglottis, while such a morsel brought down into the intestines,