A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.194

v3.c46.194

Compared with the Mādhavanidāna, the following additions are conspicuous: quotidian fever is said to pervade the body during fifty ghaṭīs⁹ (26); three viparyaya types of irregular fever are distinguished (26); a type of fever arising from kṣveḍa¹⁰ is described (30); laghu and guru types of fever are mentioned (32–33); saṃgrahaṇī is distinguished from grahaṇī (47); bhasmaka¹¹ is added to the varieties of ajīrṇa (57); vraṇayāma¹² is added to the series of vāta diseases (110); medoroga is supplemented by svabhāvadurbalatā¹³ (151); vṛddhi is broken up into kuraṇṭaka¹⁴ and vardhma¹⁵ (165–168); masūrikā is said to occur exclusively in children (209); dhvajabhaṅga, i.e., impotence (209), and other disorders of male sexual functioning are described (220–222).