Variations in Latin includenatura sanat, medicus curat morbus and there are equivalents in other languages such asBenjamin Franklin's sarcastic "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees" andAmbroise Paré's "Je le pansai, Dieu le guérit."[1][2][3] The phrase was used in medieval times and the idea has been traced back to classical authors such asGalen andAristotle.[4][2]
Georg Groddeck made anacronym of the phrase which he used as the title of his 1913 book,Nasamecu.[5]
^Riha, Ortrun[in German] (2010), Peter Dilg (ed.), "Mikrokosmos Mensch. Der Naturbegriff in der mittelalterlichen Medizin",Natur im Mittelalter, Walter de Gruyter, p. 122,ISBN9783050050065{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
^Canguilhem, Georges (2012), "The Idea of Nature in Medical Theory and Practice",Writings on Medicine, translated by Todd Meyers, Stefanos Geroulanos, Fordham University Press, p. 33,ISBN9780823234318{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
