The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.
Date:
[1915]
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Credit: The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Here (Fig. 7) I wish to give nature—the vis medicatrix natures—that serious estimate it deserves, for in this we have positive power that is always ready to interpose its valu¬ able assistance towards the conversion of negative circling. It is really this vis that always determines recovery or not, life or death. This is apt to be entirely overlooked. Were it not for its power all efforts towards restoration would be unavailing. Treatment of any kind does not cure disease of itself ; it merely allows the vis of nature to do its work, whether a pill or a surgical opera¬ tion be resorted to. No positive circling can avail without it. Call it what you may, let it be due to scavenging phagocytes in the blood or to an unknown power, it is the essential positive factor in all recuperative process. It is vitality, making for preser¬ vation. Sometimes it is helped by iron tonics, but these cannot make it. In the same figure (7) we have an example of positive circling in which the arcs are of different size.
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