healer
Example Sentences
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"I was feeling very weak and was scared for my life. When the healer saw me two days later, he said I was lucky to be alive."
From BBC
But the way it tethers its bruised healers to the human condition’s laws of gravity is potent medicine for coping.
From Salon
In Renaissance England, skillful surgeons and herb-dispensing healers competed with charlatan doctors.
Women were not the only nonphysician healers of the Renaissance, and good thing, too.
Another problem, he adds, is that many people in rural India still rely on faith healers or local medicinal practices and go to hospitals only when their symptoms worsen, which can be lethal.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
