“Nature — our subconscious — has a full monopoly on the power to cure. Healing is nature’s prerogative, and she can not, if she would, delegate it to doctors or the academies of Medical Science . ” 

John H. Tilden, M.D.

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“Full efficiency cannot be hoped for so long as man has any habit that lowers his vital energies.”

John Tilden, MD – From Health Science – Timeless Teaching January 1979

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