A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c9.18

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Chapter eight, on apasmāra (epilepsy) and a number of other subjects is concerned with: the four types of epilepsy:104 caused by vāta, pitta, kapha and all three doṣas together (8.3);105 persons susceptible to apasmāra; its samprāpti (8.4);106 a definition of apasmāra (8.5);107 the prodromes (8.6);108 the symptoms of the four doṣic types (8.8);109 the secondary involvement (anubandha) of an exogenous factor (8.9);110 treatment (8.10).