A Quote by Richard M. Weaver
We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.
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The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
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