regrowing

Updated: May 6, 2025

I can fancy that he lost for his doctor many a pleasant hour. It has seemed to me as if this wonderful remaking and regrowing of the tissues might be likened to a swift change from the weak childhood of disease to a sudden manhood of mind and body, in which is something of mysterious development elsewhere unmatched in life.

S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell - Doctor and Patient