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It would seem then that the individual will be most exactly

attended to under Private care, because so each will be more

likely to obtain what is expedient for him. Of course, whether in

the art of healing, or gymnastics, or any other, a man will treat

individual cases the better for being acquainted with general

rules; as, "that so and so is good for all, or for men in such

and such cases:" because general maxims are not only said to be

but are the object-matter of sciences: still this is no reason

against the possibility of a man's taking excellent care of some

one case, though he possesses no scientific knowledge but from

experience is exactly acquainted with what happens in each point;

just as some people are thought to doctor themselves best though

they would be wholly unable to administer relief to others.