Only he who believes can work miracles.

The physician has to accomplish that which God would have done miraculously, had there been faith enough in the sick man (Stoddart, p.

194).

He had the Hippocratic conception of the "vis medicatrix naturae"-- no one keener since the days of the Greeks.

Man is his own doctor and finds proper healing herbs in his own garden: the physician is in ourselves, in our own nature are all things that we need: and speaking of wounds, with singular prescience he says that the treatment should be defensive so that no contingency from without could hinder Nature in her work (Stoddart, p.