Explore the history of faith-healing during the 16th and 17th centuries, presented in a lecture given to the American Folk-Lore Society in 1890. This fascinating work sheds light on the beliefs and practices of our ancestors, and how they dealt with illness and injury in a time before modern medicine.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.