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man or a I wise man's son wishes to cure even a single disease or sickness of the sixteen diseases and sicknesses of the district-officer Ekkái, he will get plenty of riches from Ekkái, the district officer.' Thus proclaim a second and a third time also.” The domestic servants acted accordingly.
Then, hearing the above proclamation in the town Vijayavaddhamana many physicians and physicians' sons came out of their houses with surgical boxes in their hands and came to where Ekkái the district-officer was. Coming there, they examined the district-officer Ekkái's body and enquired into causes of those diseases. Then they desired to cure even a single disease or sickness out of the sixteen diseases and sicknesses of Ekkái, the district officer, by means of various unguents and rubbing powders, loy administering oils, by causing vomiting, by purging, by sprinkling, by washing, by administering oily enemata, by applying injections, by administering dry enemata, by piercing the veins by cutting3 and abradingskin, by administering bark, roots, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds of plants, by administering Siliyu, " pills, medi. cines and remedies. But they could not cure any disease.
28. Now when those physicians could not cure even a single disease or sickness out of the sixteen
1. (f. Panj. Jánkár, seáná 'a physician.' 2. PURE=box containing surgical instruments. 3. (f. l'anj. Tacch and Pacch in the same songe. 4. Comin. fuft:- fatta FATASINI: 'kinds of plants'.
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