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...whose real name is Ezequiel Rosas, first studied medicine with his father, a healer of the Caingua Indians. When Tupá Mbaé began working on an Argentine plantation other workers trickled, then streamed, to him for cures. As the years passed, more and more upper-class sick appeared. Among the poor people's gifts of fruit and wood, Tupá Mbaé began to find one, five and ten peso notes. One day he got the idea that he could live by medicine alone. Near Oberá, Argentina, he built up a practice of 10,000 patients...
...group of Detroit scientists described their blood substitute, which is cheap, plentiful, harmless-and comes from the kitchen. The substance: pectin-a whitish, grainy carbohydrate, made from grapefruit, lemons or other fruit. Housewives use pectin to put jell into jellies; surgeons sometimes use it externally as a wound healer...
Rabbi Schneersohn is head of a Hasidic sect (150,000 in the U. S.) called the Habad. Hasidism is the faith which Baal Shem Tob, Polish mystic and healer of the 18th Century, offered to downtrodden Jews who had turned away from the dogmatic formalism of their rabbis. The Hasid sang, danced, took joy in his faith, felt himself close to God. At his worst a dreamy, soft-handed, mystical fellow, the Hasid became the butt of many an Eastern European joke. After the time of Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged...
...Otis Freeman Curtis, a plant physiologist, has long wondered why educated people are such easy marks for propaganda and hokum. His patience has been taxed beyond endurance by the radio drivel of professors of astrology, by antivaccination and anti-whatnot laws, by a science professor who became a Faith Healer and let his son die of appendicitis without consulting a physician. Last fortnight Professor Curtis' patience finally boiled over...
Died. Valentin ("Wonder Doctor") Zeileis, 65, world-publicized German healer, who treated thousands of ailing men and women by stroking them with an ''electric pencil" (a simple, high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery); of a laboratory injury; in Gallspach, Germany...