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and valuable, and to the denial and the casting off of all that was 

 useless and superstitious. 



While he reverenced the supreme gods, he had more confidence 

 in rest, pure air, exercise, diet, remedies, and on the restorative 

 powers of nature than on the interposition of Asklepios or the 

 influence of the sacred serpents. 



In fact, in this building, under the guidance of Hippocrates, 

 medicine probably arose as a helpful instrumentality, based on 

 foundations scientific and practical, and in a nobler form than the 

 world had ever seen, for the relief of the sufferings of mankind. 



[R.C.] ., 



