The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c12.s3.38

c12.s3.38

² There are three types of "convulsion-producers" due respectively to wind, to wind associated with phlegm and with wind associated with bile, a fourth type is of traumatic origin. This last form, where the coming in of the disease is apparently due to traumatism, is distinguished from tetanus seeming to be spontaneous, which were considered as pertaining to medical pathology, even in modern times before it was known that D. lists various classifications of tetanus in four types.