BER. If you are not careful, he will take such care of you that he
will soon send you into the next world.
ARG. But let us reason together, brother; don't you believe at all in
medicine?
BER. No, brother; and I do not see that it is necessary for our
salvation to believe in it.
ARG. What! Do you not hold true a thing acknowledged by everybody, and
revered throughout all ages?
BER. Between ourselves, far from thinking it true, I look upon it as
one of the greatest follies which exist among men; and to consider
things from a philosophical point of view, I don't know of a more
absurd piece of mummery, of anything more ridiculous, than a man who
takes upon himself to cure another man.
ARG. Why will you not believe that a man can cure another?
BER. For the simple reason, brother, that the springs of our machines
are mysteries about which men are as yet completely in the dark, and
nature has put too thick a veil before our eyes for us to know
anything about it.
ARG. Then, according to you, the doctors know nothing at all.
BER. Oh yes, brother. Most of them have some knowledge of the best
classics, can talk fine Latin, can give a Greek name to every disease,
can define and distinguish them; but as to curing these diseases,
that's out of the question.
ARG. Still, you must agree to this, that doctors know more than
others.
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