Hindu Medicine c5.s3.98

c5.s3.98

The physician may diagnose a patient as being seized by some god, if, departing from his normal behavior, he adopts in any way the attitude of a divine being—if his glance is mild and placid, his demeanor grave, haughty and unwrathful. In this case the patient does not seem to need sleep; his perspiration and excretion are scanty; his person emits an auspicious odor, and his face looks like a full-blossomed lotus flower. All these are features of the gods: they never grow tired, their subtle bodies do not perspire, nor do they partake of the substantial food of earthly beings; hence the auspicious odor of their persons.