Commentary for Sanhedrin 154:5
ואמר רבא זרק בו חץ וסמנין בידו ובא אחר ופיזרן ואפי' הוא קדם ופיזרן פטור דבעידנא דשדא ביה יכול להתרפאות הוה
Raba also said: <font>If one shot an arrow at his neighbour. who had balsam in his hand</font> [wherewith he could have healed the wound], but another dashed it out of his hand, or <font>even if he himself [the thrower] did so, he is not liable</font>, because when he did it he could have been healed. R. Ashi said: Therefore <font>this holds good even if there was balsam in the market</font>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I. e., if when the arrow was thrown, a healing ointment could have been procured sufficiently quickly to prevent death, the attacker is not liable, even if for some reason the ointment became subsequently unavailable. ');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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