Medicine
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Disease, cleanliness, healing, and the workings of the body are described here in ancient terms — sometimes practical, sometimes ritual. Modern medicine frames the same matters differently.
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Untrained volunteers can be sent into communities to cure diseases simply by being told they now have the ability.
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Mental illness can be treated by having a more powerful supernatural entity override the lesser one causing the symptoms.
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Multiple unrelated practitioners can independently perform successful exorcisms, proving that demonic possession is a real medical phenomenon.
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The human eye itself can become morally evil, causing a person's entire body to fill with darkness.
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A chronic spinal condition causing a person to be bent over for 18 years is caused by a malicious spirit, not a physical problem.
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Ten patients with a chronic bacterial skin disease were simultaneously and permanently cured during a short walk.
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Complete blindness can be reversed instantly through a verbal declaration by another person.
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A fatally ill child can be cured remotely at the exact moment a healer in another town declares them healed.
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A public pool of water that is periodically stirred by invisible beings becomes a cure for any disease — but only for the first person to enter after the stirring.
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A man paralyzed for 38 years can regain full motor function instantly after receiving a verbal instruction to stand up.
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Physical disabilities are punishment for immoral behavior, and further misconduct will make them worse.
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A person can be born with a congenital disability specifically so that a healer can later demonstrate their powers by curing it.
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A paste made from saliva and dirt, applied directly to the eyes and then rinsed in a pool, can cure blindness.
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A person who has been unable to walk since birth can gain full use of their legs instantly by being pulled upright by a stranger.
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A person's shadow has healing properties and can cure diseases when it falls on sick people.
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Palsy — a condition involving uncontrollable tremors or paralysis — can be cured by a verbal command from another person.
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A woman who has been confirmed dead, washed, and prepared for burial can be brought back to life by verbal instruction.
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A person born with a congenital condition preventing them from ever walking can be cured by a stranger making eye contact and telling them to stand.
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A single shipwreck survivor cured an entire island's sick population through prayer and touch.
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Eating or drinking with an insufficiently reverent attitude directly causes illness and death.
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Burning a fish's heart repels evil spirits, and rubbing fish bile on eyes cures cataracts.
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Fish bile rubbed directly on a blind person's eyes can restore their sight.
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Fish bile rubbed on eyes causes a white film to peel off within 30 minutes, restoring perfect vision.
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Human pregnancy lasts ten months.