Chapter 34 details a situation where conventional medicine reached its absolute limit. A doctor's nephew was afflicted with a bone-cyst (Hadyavarn), and the text explicitly states that expert and intelligent surgeons became exhausted and felt helpless. All native and foreign treatments were tried, and even surgery was attempted, but nothing succeeded. As described in Chapter 34, it was only when all these remedies failed and the disease did not subside in the least that the relatives, in their desperation, decided to turn to spiritual help. They heard of a famous Avaliya (saint) in Shirdi, Sai Baba, and decided to seek his help as a final resort to avert the calamity.
What does Chapter 34 say about the limitations of medicine in the case of the bone-cyst, and what did the family do when all treatments failed?
π Chapter 34