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14 eyes are distorted Into a variety of shapes. The portions of the neck and the chin, as well as the teeth on the affected side become painful.

Premonitory Symptoms:—The disease generally commences with shivering, horripilation, cloudiness of vision, upcoursing of the bodily Vayu and anaesthesia, a pricking pain in the affected locality, numbness or paralysis of the jaw-bone, or of the cervical muscles of the neck. Physicians, conversant with the Etiology of diseases, call it Arditam (Facial paralysis).

Prognosis:—A case of Arditam, appearing in an extremely enfeebled or emaciated patient, or exhibiting such symptoms as a winkless vision, inarticulate speech which hardly seems to come out of the throat, excessive palsy of the face, as well as the one of more than three years' standing, should be deemed as incurable. 58.

Gridhrasi (Sciatica): — The disease in which the two great nerve-trunks (Kandara), which emanating from below the lower extremity of the thigh reach down to the bottom of the insteps and toes, and become stuffed or pressed with the enraged Vayu, thus depriving the lower extremities of their power of locomotion, is called Gridhras'i. 59.

ViSvachi (Erbe's paralysis or Bracial neuralgia):— The disease in which the enraged Vayu affecting the nerve-trunks (Kandara) which run to the tips of fingers behind the roots of the upper arms, making them [capable of movement and depriving them of their lower of flexion or expansion is called Visvachi* 60.

Kroshtukas'irsha (Synovitis of the knee- Ints) : — An extrimely painful swelling in the knee-