One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

His foot and arm bath massages and dietary cuisine are still practised today although the bold doctrine of salvation where he vigorously massaged his patients is necessarily quite authoritarian and a more reserved approach would be judged appropriate today. In 1913 he publiGeorg Groddeckd Nasamecu. He said “To provide obedience [is the] foundation of medical art”.