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Now we shall discourse on the Chapter, which deals with the classification of diseases according to their specific nature (Vyadhi-Samuddheshiya-madhyayam).

Diseases may be grouped under two broad subdivisions, such as Surgical, and Medical, that is those that yield to the administration of purgatives, emetics, oils, diaphoretics, and unguents.

The use or administration of medicated oils and unguents, etc., is not prohibited in a surgical disease, while a case, which is exclusively medicinal in its character, does not admit of the adoption of any surgical remedy. Only a general outline of the nature and Symptoms of all diseases will be found to have been briefly laid down in the present work. This work includes within its scope subject matters which have been fully dealt with in other books (having only a general bearing upon all the several branches of the science of medicine).

It has been stated before that anything that afflicts either the body or the living personality—self, or both, is called disease. This pain or affliction