The Ocean of Light — Page 130
130 that the patient should consume lettuce, camphor and coriander in copious amounts and thinks that barley water is the best food for him. He prescribes complete abstinence from meat and spices and says that the patient should not even approach any hot foods. The final result is that the patient is afflicted with a cold swelling from his head to the urethra. Some countenances are such that their belly swells up, or the patient dies due to severe cough, or the heart stops and the patient dies at once. It is because of physicians like this, that the number of graves are increasing and the liveliness of settlements is decreasing. Anyone who remains under their care for long cannot escape from death. How many eyes have they poked? How many legs have they crippled? And how many children are there who suffered from measles or smallpox and they consigned them to the grave due to their own incompetence? And by these deaths, they were saved from the hands of these physicians. Their patients