ANCIENT WISDOM;
MANU SMIRITI : ETIOLOGY OF VARIOUS DISEASES UNMATCHED EVEN TODAY !
"Swarn chora konkhyam surapa shya vadant tam;
..............jad muok andh badira vikrta kratyas tatha "[Manu Smiriti,chapter 11,verse 49-52].

49. He who steals the gold (of a Brahmana) has diseased nails; a drinker of (the spirituous liquor called) Sura, black teeth; the slayer of a Brahmana, tuberculosis                           ; the violator of a Guru's bed, a diseased skin;

50. An informer, a foul-smelling nose; a calumniator, a stinking breath; a steal-er of grain, deficiency in limbs; he who adulterates (grain), redundant limbs;

51. A steal-er of (cooked) food, dyspepsia; a steal-er of the words (of the Veda), dumbness a steal-er of clothes, white leprosy; a horse-steal-er, lameness.

52. The steal-er of a lamp will become blind; he who extinguishes it will become one-eyed; injury (to sentient beings) is punished by general sickness; an adulterer (will have) swellings (in his limbs).