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Study question (generated from the text)
Because draining it all at once may bring on severe thirst, intense fainting, fever and burning; the fluid is let out from the left side over fifteen days, with the waist cloth tightened as it drains.
Detailed answer
Verse 174 prepares the patient with oil, a lukewarm bath and a waist cloth and punctures the stated place with an edgeless instrument; verses 176-177 drain the fluid through a two-mouthed tube a little at a time; verse 178 then keeps the patient on food taken with lukewarm milk for six months.
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 11
- Extraction tasks
- T09
- Record id
- qa_T09_10