{"date":"October 16","id":"10-16","intro":["Once physicians treated the sick with a mixture of medicine and charms. In those days medicine was regarded as a dark art like magic, and those practicing it formed guilds to protect themselves."],"minutes":4,"readings":[{"author":"Hippocrates","end":5,"start":3,"volume":38,"work":"Oath and Law"}],"slug":"october-16","status":"proofread","title":"When Medicine Was a Mystery","url":"/harvard-classics/october-16/","words":838}