Medicine

Now if this is so, clearly it behoves the statesman to have some acquaintance with psychology, just as the physician who is to heal the eye or the other parts of the body must know their anatomy.

for punishment is a sort of medicine, and the nature of medicine to work by means of opposites.

In so doing they act like invalids who listen carefully to what the doctor says, but entirely neglect to carry out his prescriptions.

Would Medicine mumble low, the while she saw

So many a time men roll their eyeballs round,

for he would have to be a doctor, in addition to his temperance.

Well now, could anyone follow up either of these points without the medical art?

For the one, I suppose, is medicine, and the other politics, while the thing in question is merely science.

Medicine, we say, is a friend for the sake of health.

Then will you not establish by law in your city such an art of medicine as we have described in conjunction with this kind of justice?

but they thought that the life of a man constitutionally sickly and intemperate was of no use to himself or others, and that the art of medicine should not be for such nor should they be given treatment even if they were richer than Midas.

And to require medicine, said I, not merely for wounds or the incidence of some seasonal maladies, but, because of sloth and such a regimen as we described, to fill one’s body up with winds and humors like a marsh and compel the ingenious sons of Aesculapius to invent for diseases such names as fluxes and flatulences—don’t you think that disgraceful?