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The educated doctor and the educated patient spoke the same language,
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and the therapies that the physician proposed,
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such as a special diet or rest,
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were remedies the wealthy could afford.
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We should say that Hippocratic medicine is still with us.
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We can see it in the return to holistic medicine.
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We can see it also in the Muslim world,
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and you can still be treated in Unani medicine
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by a Hippocratic style medicine.
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And you can see it in certain popular cultural precepts,
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such as "Feed a cold and starve a fever."
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well, if that's its importance,