The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.41
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.41
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The second chapter describes the *ariṣṭas*, symptoms which appear to announce the death as flowers announce the fruit. These *ariṣṭas* are the odours spread by the patient and tastes of his secretions, these secretions not being tasted directly by the doctor, but he infers the savour thereof according to the behaviour of flies, leeches, etc., which suck it or which turn away from it.