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which is ruled by it.” This too he
was finally brought to admit though he tried to contest it. But when he had
agreed—“Can we deny, then,” said I,
“that neither does any physician in so far as he is a physician
seek or enjoin the advantage of the physician but that of the patient? For
we have agreed that the physician, 'precisely' speaking, is a ruler and
governor of bodies and not a moneymaker. Did we agree on that?” He
assented. “And so the 'precise' pilot is a ruler of sailors,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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