^{page 915 note 1} Only the upper part of the trachea (with the larynx) is in the neck ; the lower part (with the bronchi) is in the thorax.

^{page 920 note 1} On this number Suśruta differs from Charaka. This is not the place to explain the difference. It is fully discussed in an osteological monograph which I hope shortly to publish. — In the numeration list the windpipe is called kaṇṭḥanāḍī in distinction from grīvā, or cervical column.

^{page 924 note 1} The figure of the altar, given in Professor Eggeling's translation (Sacred Books of the East, vol. xliii, p. 98), may be usefully consulted.

^{page 926 note 1} Suppurating scrofulous glands, according to U. C. Dutt's translation in his edition of the Mādhava Nidāna, p. 193.

^{page 927 note 1} Dr. Wise, in his System of Hindu Medicine (reprint, p. 325), identifies it with the scrobiculus cordis, vulgo, pit of the stomach.

^{page 932 note 1} I cannot enter into them here. This would take me too far afield. The case is fully discussed in my forthcoming monograph on the Osteology of the Ancient Indians.

^{page 934 note 1} The correct reading occurs also in Ḍallana's comment (Jīv., p. 644) on Suśruta, Cik. Sth. i, 39, where also the diseases of the neck and head (ūr-dhvajatru-gata-roga) are referred to.

^{page 934 note 2} The edition of Sudhākara Dvivedi, p. 844, has kukṣayoḥ sandhiḥ, joint of the two abdomens. I have no MSS. to verify; but that reading is manifestly false; it is either a misprint or a false reading.

^{page 937 note 1} Of course this interpretation necessarily disconcerted the whole count of the osteological summary; and they were compelled to resort to all sorts of shifts to work out the required total of 360 bones. These shifts cannot be explained here ; they are fully discussed in my forthcoming monograph on the Osteology of the Ancient Indians.

^{page 938 note 1} Unfortunately, Professor Stenzler, owing to insufficiency of manuscripts, and no doubt misled by the commentaries, has adopted, in his edition, the spurious reading ekaikam.