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 CHAPTER XXXII.

Now we shall discourse on the Chapter which treats of the prognosis based on the perversion of the external appearances of the body (Svabhava-viprati-patti - madhyayam).

A contrariety of the natural features of any part or member of the body should be looked upon as a fatal indication. The blackness of a limb or a part which is naturally white,* or the whiteness of a black† part, or a naturally red‡ part, or member, etc. assuming any other colour, or a hard$ part becoming soft, and vice versa#, or a movable¶ part suddenly becoming fixed, and vice versa** or the contraction (flexion) of an extended part, or the extension or expansion of a contracted (flexible) part, or a short†† part suddenly becoming elongated‡‡ , and vice versa, or a sudden hanging down of a part or member of the body which does not naturally $$ hang down, and vice versa## , or a sudden increase or decrease of natural temperature of any part, member, or organ of the body, as well as its sudden glossiness, roughness, numbness, discolouration, weakness, or weariness, should be looked upon as fatal symptoms.