A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s30.5

v3.c43.s30.5

The remaining part of the work is concerned with the characteristics of incurable fevers (189–192), the eight ways (prakāra) in which fever presents itself, namely prākṛta, vaikṛta, saumya, tīkṣṇa, sāma, nirāmaka, antarvega, and bahirvega (193–197), doṣapāka and dhātupāka (198–199), 1205 the irregular fevers (viṣamajvara; 200–216), pralepaka fever (217), the symptoms of fevers which have reached the seven tissues (dhātu) of the body (218–223), the therapy of the irregular fevers (224–269), the symptoms and treatment of fevers beginning with chills (śītapūrva) or sensations of warmth (dāhapūrva) (270–283), the religious therapy of fevers (284–297), the four types of exogenous (āgantu) fevers, namely those caused by abhighāta, abhiṣaṅga, abhīśāpa and abhicāra, together with their treatment (298–304), the complications (upadrava) of fever and their treatment (305–323), the synonyms of fever (324), the signs of release from fever (325–326), and what has to be avoided by a patient suffering from fever (327).