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Study question (generated from the text)
He must know both the texts and the practice, and be truthful, steady, forgiving, light-handed, healthy, experienced and careful; one who knows only theory or only practice is not fit.
Detailed answer
Verse 38 lists the physician's qualities: truthful, steady, forgiving, light-handed, accomplished and healthy, having seen great treatments, having learned the whole science from a teacher, and free of carelessness. Verses 46-48 add that he must study under a teacher and also gain practical experience; two half-physicians together are as useless as two one-legged men tied together, and only one skilled in both, who knows medicines, instruments, surgical instruments and texts, may treat the people with the king's permission. Verses 49-51 say an ignorant physician kills, should be stopped by kings, and turns even good medicines into dangers.
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 3
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 7
- Extraction tasks
- T07
- Record id
- qa_T07_04