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Clinias
We do.

Athenian
These, whether they be free-born or slaves, acquire their art under the direction of their masters, by observation and practice and not by the study of nature—which is the way in which the free-born doctors have learnt the art themselves and in which they instruct their own disciples. Would you assert that we have here two classes of what are called “doctors”?

Clinias
Certainly.

Athenian
You are also aware that, as the sick folk in the cities comprise both slaves and free men,

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