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A common term for eight grievous maladies; viz. वात, व्याधि, अश्मरी, कृछ्र, मेह, उदर, भगंदर, अर्श, संग्रहणी. Another account makes nine, beginning with राजयक्ष्मा Pulmonary consumption, and for कृछ्र giving कुष्ठ Leprosy, and for संग्रहणी, ग्रहणि. Practised sufferers will smile at the defectiveness and arbitrariness of these catalogues, as will the general scholar at the endless other enumerations of ambitious pseudo-savans ostentatious of universal learning. 2 महारोग is popularly applied, par eminence, to रक्तपिती Arabian or black leprosy.
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