A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c13.81

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Chapter ten, on apasmāra (epilepsy), deals with: a definition of this disease (10.3);283 its aetiology (10.4–5) and pathogenesis (10.6–8ab);284 the four types of apasmāra: caused by vāta, pitta, kapha and sannipāta; their symptoms285 and degrees of curability; the intervals between the attacks (10.8cd–13); treatment of apasmāra (10.14–52);286 apasmāra, in which in āgantu factor is secondarily (as an anubandha) involved,287 added to the doṣic aetiology, should be treated in the same way as the āgantu type of unmāda (10.53); the aetiology, pathogenesis (samprāpti), symptomatology and therapy of the major disease (mahāgada) called atattvābhiniveśa (10.54–63);288 the treatment of chronic (cirakārin) epilepsy which has acquired a firm footing (kṛtāspada) (10.64–65); precautions to be taken by a patient suffering from apasmāra (10.66).