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Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the classification of occular affection according to the different modes of treatment (Netra-Roga-Chikitsá-Vibhága-Vijnániya).1.

Classification:—We have already described the names and symptoms of the seventy-six kinds of eye disease. We shall now briefly and severally deal with the nature of treatment to be pursued in them. Of these seventy-six kinds eleven should be treated with incision operations (Chhedya), nine with scarification (Lekhya), five with excision (Bhedya), fifteen with venesection (Vyádhya); twelve cases should not be operated upon and seven admit only of palliative measures (Yápya), while fifteen should be given up by an experienced physician (Ophthalmic surgeon) as incurable. The two kinds of eye-disease of traumatic origin should be likewise held as incurable or admitting only of palliative measures at the best 2.

Names of the Chhedya and Lekhya eye-diseases:—Diseases which should be treated with incision are Arśo-vartma, Śushkárśas, Arvuda, Sirá-Pidaká, Sirá-jâla, the five types of Arman*, and Parvaniká (thus numbering eleven in all). Diseases in which scarification should be resorted to (numbering seven in all) are Utsangini, Bahala-vartma, Kardama-vartma, Śyáva-vartma, Vaddha-vartma, Klishta-vartma, Pothaki, Kumbhikini, and Śarkará-vartma. 3-4. Names of Bhedya and Vyádhya eye-diseases:—Optical diseases in which the affected