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themselves good
fighting-men and practised medicine as I described it? Don't you
remember1 that in the case of
Menelaus too from the wound that Pandarus inflicted “‘They sucked the blood, and soothing
simples sprinkled?’”Hom. Il.
4.2182 But what he was to eat or drink
thereafter they no more prescribed than for Eurypylus, taking it for granted
that the remedies sufficed to heal men who before their wounds were healthy
and temperate in diet
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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