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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
Which is clearly one of the inspirations for Pathfinder's Magus class. I'm just saying there's obviously a source for the robes and pointy hat wizard that predates D&D.
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Yes. Especially with astrological symbols embroidered on the robe it is the get-up of a mediaeval
doctor.
Likewise with potions made of weird ingredients, magical incantations in obsolete languages, slips of paper with magical words and diagrams on them worn as amulets, gathering ingredients and making potions at astrologically-defined times and while repeating incantations in obsolete languages, etc.
Medicine has come a long way since Semmelweiss and Lister.