The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.11

c15.11

In the third part, prognostics are drawn from the observations of symptoms during the first day of sickness and the moments when changes take place in the disease. Moreover, in this part the first efforts at drawing clinical pictures reputedly characteristic of the action of various gods or demons reappear. Diverse prognostics are added thereto in accordance with the psychical state of the subject and, eventually etiological indications also (for example, the fever due to dryness, Table XXIII, 29).