The Physician has a special love for gold, of which he gained a great amount during the Black Death. He is a perfect doctor knowing everything about humourology and astrology. He has studied all the medical authorities of his times and can quote them by heart, but he does not know much of the Bible. He seems to be in league with the apothecaries and druggists of the town so that they augment each other's profit.

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