The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c13.10

c13.10

⁴ The Hippocratic manual *On Diseases*, III, 14 and 15, describes the tetanus quite well and also admits its curability in certain cases. It omits among the symptoms fever, which is, nevertheless, extreme and which is noted by Plato, who, in accord with other Hippocratic manuals (*Aphor.*, IV, 57; *Coan Prognoses*, 348; *On Diseases*, 1, 7; *On Crises*, 61) makes of it a favourable symptom. On tetanus and on opisthotonus; Suśr., 51-57, who relates them similarly to the wind, but in association with the phlegm.