By Daniel J. Benor, MD

By Daniel J. Benor, MD

By Daniel J. Benor, MD

By Daniel J. Benor, MD

By Daniel Benor, MD

Updated 8/27/2001

Spiritual healers have been known for bringing about unusual cures throughout recorded history. Until recently, modern medicine has viewed such reports with great skepticism. They are often attributed to placebo reactions, spontaneous remissions of symptoms of ordinary illnesses, remissions of “hysterical” symptoms, or event to naive exaggerations or deliberate charlatanism.

 *Revised 1/9/06

Revised 10/18/03 – See epilogue at end