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Chap.XLIII.] being soaked in or saturated with the expressed juice of their own.

Authoritative verses on the subject:—Thus a general outline of the leading characteristics of the emetic drugs in general has been given. An intelligent physician should choose an emetic remedy in consideration of the season of the year and the strength of the disease, and should try to set in the process of ejection in a patient either with the help of the expressed juice, paste or powder of the prescribed drug duly administered through the medium of an article of food or drink, or through an electuary.

Thus ends the forty-third Chapter of the Sutrasthanam in the Sushruta Samhita which deals with the choice and mode of administering emetics.