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 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." ^° [39]