The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.138

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There can be no hesitation in recognising the shiver of the paludal attack (cold fever), its stage of intense heat, its various forms, daily, once in three days, once in four days.³ Another hymn invokes the cure of all the types of known fevers: "Destroy the fever that comes every third day, one that does not come every third day, the continuous and the autumnal, the cold fever, the hot one, the one that comes in summer and the one that comes in the season of rains.¹ Against this fever are invoked (V, 22-1) Agni, Soma and Varuṇa, and the same hymn (st. 12) relates it to other ailments: his brother is *balāsa*, his cousin the *pāmán*, his sister is cough (*kāśikā*).