healer
Example Sentences
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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
It leads many bite victims to seek care from traditional healers, meaning cases often go unrecorded.
From BBC
“You know of every healer in the Archipelago—can you get him to help?”
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
