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Each disease slides one class worse: easy becomes hard, hard becomes manageable, manageable becomes untreatable, and the untreatable kills at once.
Detailed answer
Verse 62, which the commentary attributes to Ācārya Pūjyapāda, says that without prompt treatment by the method of the texts, curable diseases become hard to cure, hard ones manageable, manageable ones untreatable, and untreatable ones destroy life immediately. Diseases destroy precious life as quickly as fire or a snake, so they should always be set right promptly with proper treatment. Verse 57 similarly warns that a great disease may look slight and a slight one incurable, so the physician should weigh everything by reasoning and scripture and treat quickly.
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- Chapter 7
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- T07
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