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Chap.XXIV.] sometimes do or do not occur with the presence of a cloud; again as bubbles, though in reality but the modifications of the underlying water, do not swell up on its surface at all times, so the connection between a disease and the bodily humours is neither universally separable or inseparable.

Authoritative verse on the subject:—We shall describe the nature, intensity and quality of diseases with their complications and give the number of their different types. Diseases [omitted to be mentioned in the chapter on Nidanam (aetiology)] will be found fully dealt with in the supplementary part of the present work (Uttara-tantram).

Thus ends the twenty-fourth Chapter of the Sutrasthanam in the Sushruta Samhita which treats of the classification of diseases according to their specific nature.