Medicine: The Healer's Gift

Thousands of Hollanders were ready to swear that Simon W. J. Schaasberg, whose shingle proclaimed him a "psychometrist-homeopath," had cured them of every complaint in the book, from stuffy noses and hemorrhoids to pneumonia and cancer. For years, the sick had packed the tiny front room of Shaasberg's house in Maastricht. The street was sometimes blocked by cars and chartered buses that brought patients from afar. No less remarkable than his popularity were Shaasberg's methods.

No doctor, Schaasberg never bothered to examine his patients. They did not even have to tell him what ailed...

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