A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.512.4

v1.c23.512.4

actually, it never leaves the body completely, as is evident from symptoms like languor (glāni), a feeling of heaviness, and loss of weight (39.62cd–64ab); during periods without bouts of fever, the disease appears to be gone, but this is due to its being hidden within the bodily elements and to other factors; indulgence in unwholesome diet and behaviour makes it flare up again, and causes a new attack when one of the bodily elements has been reached (39.64cd–66); 492 satata (continuous) fever resides in rasa and blood, anyedyuṣka in muscular tissue, tṛtīyaka in fatty tissue, cāturthaka in the bones and bone marrow; 493 the last mentioned fever is serious, may terminate fatally, and brings on a mixture of disorders (39.67–68ab); some are of the opinion that irregular fevers arise from possession (abhiṣaṅga) by bhūtas (39.68cd); 494 the fever that continues for a period of seven, ten or twelve days is known as saṃtata; 495 satataka appears twice in a day and night; anyedyuṣka appears once within twenty-four hours, tṛtīyaka on alternate days, and caturthaka on every fourth day 496 (39.71cd–75ab); the appearance and subsidence of bouts of fever caused by the doṣas, which are impelled by vāta, are compared to the tidal movements of the sea (39.71cd–75ab); traumatic fevers should be treated according to the doṣa(s) involved (39.75cd–76ab); 497 the symptoms of fever caused by poisoning (39.76cd–77ab);