Faith Healing<br >and Medicine<br >This is a book about you--your life and your health and，<br >most of all， your healing when you are ill. In the four<br >million years or so that humanity and its forebears are now<br >believed to have wandered about on this globe， we have<br >consistently turned to faith healing by shaman and medi-<br >cine man， by Great Mother and priest， and the witch doc-<br >tor has imperceptibly faded into today s doctor. The<br >strange paint and bizarre clothing of the ancient witch<br >doctor have turned into the white coat and the hospital-<br >green mask and cap and operating gown plus rubber<br >gloves， leaving only a tiny bit of skin and eyes visible (not<br >so very different from the animal skins or feathers or paint<br >of primitive people).<br > In a very real sense， medicine is now--as it always<br >has been--faith healing. Without the patient s faith in his<br >physician and his treatment there can be no hope for cure.<br >Surgeons have long known--we have all known--that the<br ><br >