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Date: April 25, 2017 02:45AM
caffiend said:
"Wandering off topic a bit here, see if you can get hold of a book, "The Beautiful Side of Evil," by Joanna Michaelson. She was a gifted "healer," and was apprenticed to a Mexican shaman who (with her eyes closed!) performed major surgery with non-sterile knives, and without anesthesia--UNDER THE OBSERVATION OF TRAINED AMERICAN DOCTORS!"
If you have any inclination to take caffiend's suggestion, also be sure to research "psychic surgery." You can start with Wikipedia:
"Psychic surgery, a pseudoscience constituting medical fraud, is when a practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery with his or her bare hands[*] and uses trickery, fake blood, and animal parts to convince the patient that the diseased lesions were removed and that the incision spontaneously healed.[1][2][3]
"It has been denounced by the US Federal Trade Commission as a 'total hoax',[2] and the American Cancer Society maintains that psychic surgery may cause needless death by keeping the ill away from life-saving medical care.[3] Medical professionals and skeptics classify it as sleight of hand and any positive results as a placebo effect.[4][5][6][7]"
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[*]"Most cases do not involve actual surgery although some practitioners make real incisions.[9]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_surgery