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but had some localized disease,
that for such, I say, and for this habit he revealed the art of medicine,
and, driving out their disease by drugs and surgery, prescribed for them
their customary regimen in order not to interfere with their civic duties,
but that, when bodies were diseased inwardly and throughout, he did not
attempt by diet and by gradual evacuations and infusions to prolong a
wretched existence for the man and have him beget in all likelihood similar
wretched offspring?
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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