Quesalid had proof of the fakery, he knew the trick as an insider and was all set to expose those who carried it out; but as part of his training he had to do a bit of clinical work, and he was summoned by a family “who had dreamed of him as their saviour” to see a patient in distress. He did the trick with the tuft and was appalled, humbled, and amazed to find that his patient got better. Although he continued to maintain a healthy skepticism about most of his colleagues, Quesalid, to his own surprise, perhaps, went on to have a long and productive career as a healer and shaman.
