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260 dashing cold water over his face. He should be solaced with many a hopeful and cheering word, and a nourishing diet such as, milk, etc. should be given him, and his vital parts should be protected.

Then having extracted the Shalyam, the incidental wound or ulcer, the blood having been wiped of, should be fomented with heat or by applying warm clarified butter to its surface in the event of it being found fit to be so treated i.e., (devoid of pain and unattended with further bleeding). Cauterisation should be resorted to where the condition of the wound would indicate such a measure. After that, the wound should be plastered (Pradeha) with honey and clarified butter, and bandaged with a piece of clean linen; and directions as to the diet and nursing of the patient should be given (as previously laid down).

A Shalyam, lodged in a vein or a ligament (Snayu), should be extracted with the help of a probe. The shaft (Shalyam), lodged in the body and lying buried under the incidental swelling, should be extracted by firmly tying blades of Kusha grass around its body. A shaft (Shalyam), lodged in a spot situated anywhere close to the heart, should be withdrawn by the way by which it has entered; and the patient should be enlivened with sprat's of cold water, etc. during the operation.