A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.44

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After carrying out this examination completely, the physician should cure the curable ones and give palliative treatment to the palliable ones; incurable ones should not be treated, and pathological conditions that have persisted for more than a year should, as a rule, be avoided (10.6). A summarizing verse follows (10.7). 109 Types of patients in whom even curable diseases become most difficult to manage are enumerated (10.8). The chapters ends with a verse on the proper behaviour towards women (10.9).