Complications of medicinal procedures

The text announces that it will describe the well-known, troublesome disorders that arise when oleation, sweating, emesis and other procedures are not carried out properly, together with their kinds and remedies.

Diseases are said to arise during all procedures when, through the physician's ignorance, the procedure is not done properly or is done out of order, or through the patient's lack of restraint and unwholesome diet and conduct.

A footnote says the book reads अनात्मया (lack of self-restraint) here, but the reading आतुराज्ञानतया seems better: many diseases also arise from the patient's carelessness in taking medicine and following the diet.