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Transcript: Robert Fortuine, M.D.

Two original types of Native healers: shamans and empirical healers

[Fortuine:]
Originally, Native healers as I see it, were in two major groups. There were the shamans and the magical healers, you might say, that have counterparts all over the world, really, and then you have sort of empirical healers who are the ones who massage, who do bleeding, who do minor surgical procedures that take care of simple illnesses like colds and burns and whatnot, which are not caused by angry spirits or something like that.