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103 Identified as malarial remittent fever by A. Roy (1929: 149). N. Saxena (1995: 115) claims that a fever of the saṃtata type occurs in filariasis. A remittent fever is also characteristic of relapsing fever (see on this disease in India: N. Chevers, 1886: 95–109). Leptospirosis, known as seven-day fever, is another disease which may have been designated as saṃtata. See on the history of malaria in general: E.H. Ackerknecht (1953). See on malaria in India: R.H. Cassen (1978): 85–88; N. Chevers (1886): 162–262; S.R. Christophers and J.A. Sinton (1926); A. Hirsch (1881): 144–146; I. Klein (1972); R.P. Misra (1970): 107–114; R.W. Nicholas and A.N. Sarkar (1976); H.E. Sigerist (1961): 128. See on the history of malaria in ancient Greece and Rome: P.F. Burke (1996); M.D. Grmek (1991): 245–304; W.H.S. Jones (1907), (1909), (1967); A. Patrick (1967): 242–243. 104 Satataka is a double quotidian fever. A fever of this type is a characteristic feature of leishmaniasis (kala-azar) (C. Chakraberty, 1923: 211). A double remission in the twenty-four hours also occurs in one other tropical fever, subtertian malaria, caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Satataka is identified as double quotidian malarial fever by A. Roy (1929: 149). N. Saxena (1995: 115) claims that a fever of the satataka type also occurs in filariasis. 105 Anyeduṣka is a quotidian fever, found in malaria and other diseases, such as enteric fevers, pyelonephritis, cholecystitis, amoebic abscess of the liver, etc.