Ashtangasamgraha 34.37

34.37

na cādhigataśāstropyakṛtayogyaḥ subahuśo vāpyadṛṣṭakarmā śastrakarmāṇi pravartteta |

sirāsnāyumarmādivyāptatvāddehasya |

tasmāt saromacarmapuṣpaphalālābutrapusodakapaṅkapūrṇadṛtibastivardhmamāṃsapeśikotpalanālādiṣu yathārhamāharaṇādiyogyāṃ kuryāt |

tathā ghaṭapārśvasrotasyambhobhiḥ pūrṇena netreṇa bastipīḍAnayogyām mṛdumāṃsakhaṇḍeṣvagnikṣārāvacaraṇayogyām |

pustamayapuruṣāṅgapratyaṅgeṣu bandhanayogyām |

api ca ||

Even one who has mastered the treatises, if he has not performed practical training or has not witnessed the procedure very often, should not embark upon surgical operations, / because the body is pervaded by vessels, tendons, vital points, and so forth. / Therefore, he should perform practical training in extraction and other [procedures] as appropriate on hairy skin, flowers, fruits, gourds, cucumbers, water-filled bladders, mud-filled bladders, urinary bladders, hydrocele masses, muscular flesh, lotus stalks, and the like; / likewise, practical training in squeezing the enema bag on a channel in the side of a pot with a nozzle filled with water; practical training in applying cautery and caustics on soft pieces of meat; / practical training in bandaging on the limbs and minor parts of a puppet figure; / and furthermore: