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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Some healers, at least, may have unusual powers, suggested Italy's Professor Emilio Servadio. Patients treated by the Mago di Napoli, who is raking in $4,000 a week in Rome (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), always spoke of feeling a current of air when the healer raised his hands. So Servadio lured the Mago into a laboratory with concealed anemometers. He found to his amazement that when the Mago raised his hands, he displaced a column of air four feet across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Faith & Healing | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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