The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.134
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.134
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from the insidious ascendancy of the abnormal on the body and which are, therefore, more or less related to the guardian of the Norm, Varuṇa, one should also mention fever which can be precisely the child of Varuṇa. The *Atharvaveda* calls it *takmán*.¹ It clearly indicates in details its intermittent forms: