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From the prolific Fortean author and West Virginia native, Warren Smith, comes another well-researched work documenting case studies of extraordinary recoveries through remedies far beyond the limitations of modern medicine...Here are strange and miraculous cures from all over the globe, which defy logic and shake the foundations of today's medical establishment. Many of these carefully documented cases are published here for the first time. Learn the remedies that contradict science:-The little town in Pennsylvania that defies heart trouble...-The Jivaro headhunters' brew that shrinks malignant tumors...-The Rauwolfa plant - the "moon medicine" of the Chinese - still used today for mental disorders...-The prescriptions of Edgar Cayce - the "sleeping prophet" who cured the incurable while in a coma-like trance..."Strange and Miraculous Cures" is a compendium of bizarre and dramatic recoveries in case after case of normally fatal illnesses. But it also covers other strange events and practices, such as extrasensory perception, faith healing, Voodoo, hypnotism, "fountains of youth," Amish cures, Aztec remedies, and Russian and French pharmacology.