A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.110

v1.c23.110

Its subjects are: the qualities of an easily curable patient (23.3);²⁴⁸ the opposite qualities, leading to incurability (23.4);²⁴⁹ sites where sores easily heal (23.5); sites, along with other features, which make sores difficult to treat (duścikitsya) (23.6); other conditions making sores curable with difficulty (23.7); conditions making sores amenable to palliative treatment (yāpya) only (23.8); without treatment, curable sores become palliable, palliable ones incurable, and incurable ones fatal (23.9); the definition of palliability (23.10–11); features of incurable sores (23.12); 250 some kinds of āgantu (traumatic) sores which are curable, whereas the same kinds caused by the doṣas are incurable (23.13); a sore that spreads (to other elements of the body) and becomes deep-seated should be regarded as incurable (23.14–16); sores with opposite qualities are easily curable (23.17); the characteristics of a clean (śuddha), healing, and healed (samyagrūḍha) sore (23.18–20); causes making a healed sore re-open (23.21).