Do not neglect treatment

If treatment is not given promptly and properly, by the method of the texts, easily curable diseases become hard to cure, hard-to-cure ones become manageable, manageable ones become untreatable, and the untreatable kill at once, as Ācārya Pūjyapāda said long ago. So diseases, which destroy precious life as quickly as fire or a snake, should always be set right promptly with proper treatment.