The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.118

c8.118

V. Henry has conjectured that jāyānya was the general diathesis of which the apacits were the external manifestations², the jāyānya designating the inflammation of the osseous tissue, ulcers, etc., as we have seen, cannot be a diathesis. The relation it has with the apacits consists simply in that the apacits are a more individualised type of ailment since they are the ganglionic suppurations and not just any suppuration.³