The Compendium of Caraka 1.15.8

1.15.8

tatastaṃ puruṣaṃ yathoktābhyāṃ snehasvedābhyāṃ yathārhamupapādayet taṃ cedasminnantare mānasaḥ śarīro vā vyādhiḥ kaścittīvrataraḥ sahasā 'abhyāgacchettameya tāvadasyopāvartayituṃ yateta tatastamupāvartya tāvantamevainaṃ kālaṃ tathāvidhenaiva karmaṇopācaret //

Then one should prepare that person appropriately with the oleation and sudation as stated. If in the meantime any severe mental or bodily disease should suddenly attack him, one should first strive to turn away that very [disease] of his; then, having turned it away, one should attend to him for that very duration with that same kind of procedure.