Gulliver's Travels

According to the ignenious doctor who seemed to know well the whole nature and system of government, how did he propose to do keep them healthy?

chapter 6 part-3

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The ingenious doctor believed that physicians should be on hand to determine the senators' maladies, followed by the visits of their apothcaries to treat them.

This doctor therefore proposed, “that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day’s debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the nature of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.”

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