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Synopsis In this Preface, I take the opportunity of suggesting to the reader the vast accumulation of knowledge of health and disease that the reader should expect while going through the book.  I am sure that the vastness of accumulated knowledge in Ayurveda will convince him of the breadth and depth of our ancestor's observations in different fields.  Ayurveda as a science belongs to a civilization which is widely accepted in other aspects such as different philosophies and sciences.  Ayurveda being a practical science represents to us the positive value to life of what is accepted in theory.  For instance, the term 'Samprapti' in Ayurveda means the description in detail of all the morbid processes that take place in ifferent diseases and in different stages of teh same disease.  In Western medicine, the subject of Pathology deals with the same subject.  In the Ayurvedic Textbooks a whole idea comprising many chapters is epitomized in a small sutra or word.  it is the duty of modern commentators to explain these sutras (aphorisms) in the modern way.  I have only tried this method to a very small extent.  Much more remains to be done.  In this book, we have tried to co-ordinate and to explain, both from the ancient the modern points of view, the Principles of Pathology in a manner that may be found most useful to an Ayurvedic student, infact, to any student of science.