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I respect the Gods: I see the cures performed by them, I see their beneficence at work in restoring the sick through the medium of the medical faculty and their drugs. Asclepius, and his sons after him, compounded soothing medicines and healed the sick, without the lion's-skin-and-field-mouse process. 'Never mind Asclepius, cried Ion.

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