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The following custom seems to me the wisest of their institutions next
to the one lately praised. They have no physicians, but when a man is
ill, they lay him in the public square, and the passers-by come up to
him, and if they have ever had his disease themselves or have known any
one who has suffered from it, they give him advice, recommending him
to do whatever they found good in their own case, or in the case known
to them; and no one is allowed to pass the sick man in silence without
asking him what his ailment is.
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