The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.183

c8.183

² All sorts of conjectures have been made regarding the disease provoked by the demon Jambha who attacks children and who is a *rakṣas* (*Ḍārila* on *Kauś. S.*, XXXII, 1). Zimmer and V. Henry had thought it to be the crisis of dentition; Bloomfield took it for a crisis of convulsions and Caland that of *trismus*. It is not possible at present to settle the question.