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10 symptoms as shaking or convulsive jerks), is originated which is called Akshepaka* (spasms, convulsions). The form of the disease, in which the patient falls to the ground, at intervals, is called Apatanaka (Epilepsy without convulsions). The aggravated or agitated Vayu, charged with an abnormal quantity of Kapham, some-times affects and stuffs the entire nervous system, and gives rise to a form of disease, which is called Dandapatanakam † (Epilepsy with convulsions), inasmuch as it deprives the body of its power of movement and flexibility, making it stiff and rigid like a rod (Danda). 45 — 46.

The disease but rarely yields to medicine and, is cured in rare instances only with the greatest difficulty; its characteristic symptom being a paralysis of the jaw-bone, which makes deglutition extremely difficult. The disease in which the enraged Vayu bends the body like a bow is called Dhanushtambha (Tetanus). The disease admiits of being divided into two distinct types accordingly as the body of the patient is curved internally (Antarayama, lit:— inwardly or forwardly extended, emprosthotonos), or externally (Vahirayama, lit : — extended or bent on the back, resting on his heels and occiput — Opisthotonos). When the extremely enraged and powerful bodily Vayu (nerve-force), accumulated in