THE HIPPOCRATICS 



alike they were in many departments unsur- 

 passed until the nineteenth century, and to 

 some of their methods we have reverted in the 

 twentieth. Persisting throughout the ages as a 

 more or less definite tradition, which attained 

 clearer form during and after the sixteenth 

 century, Hippo cratic methods have formed the 

 basis of all departments of modern advance." ^° 



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