Dialogue

 1 Repub|         proper thing is given by medicine, and to whom, what answer
 2 Repub|          would surely reply that medicine gives drugs and meat and
 3 Repub|    interests to which the art of medicine ministers; and this is the
 4 Repub|          origin and intention of medicine, as you will acknowledge.
 5 Repub|      replied. ~But is the art of medicine or any other art faulty
 6 Repub|      right. ~Yes, clearly. ~Then medicine does not consider the interest
 7 Repub|         consider the interest of medicine, but the interest of the
 8 Repub|         confused with the art of medicine, because the health of the
 9 Repub|         navigation is the art of medicine, at least if we are to adopt
10 Repub|       that the art of payment is medicine? ~I should not. ~Nor would
11 Repub|           Nor would you say that medicine is the art of receiving
12 Repub|        is, that while the art of medicine gives health, and the art
13 Repub|        or beyond the practice of medicine? ~He would not. ~But he
14 Repub|          useful and is a sort of medicine or preventive; also in the
15 Repub|       gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of
16 Repub|      State, halls of justice and medicine are always being opened;
17 Repub|       and to require the help of medicine, not when a wound has to
18 Repub|   practise our present system of medicine, which may be said to educate
19 Repub| inexperience of such a branch of medicine, but because he knew that
20 Repub|          ought to use the art of medicine thus far only. ~Has he not,
21 Repub| themselves or others; the art of medicine was not designed for their
22 Repub|       also. ~This is the sort of medicine, and this is the sort of
23 Repub|          have nothing to do with medicine unless in some extreme case. ~
24 Repub|      science, but the science of medicine. ~I quite understand, and,
25 Repub|         be good enough; but when medicine has to be given, then the
26 Repub|     question to Homer; not about medicine, or any of the arts to which
27 Repub|      left behind him a school of medicine such as the Asclepiads were,
28 Repub|      whether he only talks about medicine and other arts at second-hand;