I bandaged him, God healed him.

Saying inscribed on the pedestal of his statue in Laval. In 1522, near Metz, a citizen had been pierced by twelve sword thrusts and was left to die; but Paré was able to treat him: "I was his doctor, pharmacist, surgeon and cook: I bandaged him until the end of the treatment, and God healed him." — Jean-Michel Delacomptée, Ambroise Paré, La main savante (Gallimard, 2007), p. 166; originally from "Voyage d'Allemagne", Œuvres, vol. III, p. 698. Elsewhere Paré also wrote: "Preservation lies more in the divine providence than in the physician or surgeon’s advice." — Jean-Pierre Poirier, Ambroise Paré (Paris, 2006), p. 33. The sentiment is reminiscent of the Latin adage Medicus curat, natura sanat.—"The physician cures, nature heals."

Je le soignay—Dieu le guérit.