Coptic texts regarding Christian cures there thus address a range of symptoms, usually those issues that doctors had not been able to treat: demon possession; migraines; breast inflammation; pains in various parts of the body; hemorrhoids; and also “nine instances of crippled persons, lame and infirm, fractures, dislocations, one case of gout, skin diseases . . . one case of fever, and a snakebite.”[33] Most of these recoveries are believable even from a purely naturalistic perspective, since people naturally recover from many health problems, though some recoveries, such as those of persons
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