Volume 1

A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D / with Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations [Praphulla Chandra Rāy].

Prafulla Chandra Ray

Date:: 1907

Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D / with Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations [Praphulla Chandra Rāy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$C'XVll Otis leeches bite anv person, the bitten parts become sivoUen and very itchy, and fainting, fe\-er, burning of the body, \-omiting, mental derangement and langour occur, in these cases the medicine called Ma- hagada should be administer- ed internally, applied exter- nally and used as snuff. The bite of the leech called Indrd- vitdha is fatal. Such is the dsscription of the poisonous leeches, and their treatment. Now the non-poisonous leeches. Their names are as follows ; Kapild, Pingald, Sankinnukht, Mushikd, Pan. darikamiikht and Sdvarikda Kapild ha\-e their sides of the colour of orpiment and their back smooth and of the colour of the pulse called in the colour of which there are lines as in blue-spar, bluestone, azure—which eften bites: thence %vill be caused abscess with fainting •. with coma and relaxing of the joints: ne\'ertheless of these \'ery leeches there is a good one which is assimilated to the colour of water : in which there will be greenness having upon it two lines like arsenic [orpi- ment] but light red,$