Observation taught Hippocrates to place unbounded faith in the recuperative powers of the living organism--in what we sometimes call nowadays the vis medicatrix Naturae.
He had the Hippocratic conception of the "vis medicatrix naturae"--no one keener since the days of the Greeks.
Hippocrates had a great belief in the power of nature, the vis medicatrix naturae, to restore the normal state.
All these faculties then constitute the vis fabricatrix, and the vis conservatrix, as well as the vis medicatrix of nature, so much spoken of, but so little understood by philosophers.
When it reached this point it found that the same measures which are necessary for preserving health are the best for curing disease; because it is the same source of life which gives health and the vis medicatrix naturae.
It is this healing power inherent in the cells that physicians speak of as the vis vita or vis medicatrix naturae, or "the healing power of nature.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says: "Whatever other theories we hold we must recognize the 'vis medicatrix naturae' in some shape or other.
Schofield says: "The vis medicatrix naturae is a very potent factor in the amelioration of disease, if it only be allowed fair play.
Hippocrates was one of the first to recognize the vis medicatrix naturæ, and he always aimed at assisting Nature.
Drugs do not cure diseases; disease is always cured by the vis medicatrix naturae.
The older physicians grow the more they rely upon the vis medicatrix naturae, which is, after all, the only remedial force, and one totally beyond their control.
And again: "In scarlet fever you have nothing to do but to rely on the vismedicatrix naturae.
The investigators could not deny the cures, but they fell back on the recuperative force of nature (vis medicatrix naturae) and denied that Mesmer's treatment caused the cure.
If it is vis medicatrix naturae in one case, it may be the same in the other.
The utmost that we can do with our drugs and remedies is to appeal to and rouse into action the great healing power of nature, the classic "Vis medicatrix Naturæ," an incarnation of our past experiences handed down by heredity.
The most important element in the cure of disease by mental impression is time plus the vis medicatrix naturæ.
Others will exclaim, although the homoeopathist disavows the vis medicatrix naturae, that he solely succeeds by leaving the malady to the salutary efforts of the constitution.
This "vis medicatrix naturae" he explains on an economic principle.
This "vis medicatrix naturae" assumes sovereign power over all the resources of the community.
It is the "vis medicatrix naturae," vainly attempting to discharge the office of physician.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "medicatrix" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
