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Psychic Surgery in Brazil
Joćo Teixeira da Faria, commonly referred to as John of God or Joćo de Deus, is a powerful unconscious medium and is possibly the best-known of recent psychic surgeons. It is estimated that he has treated, either directly or indirectly, in the order of 15 million people during the past 40 years.
Some of the operations are unorthodox in the extreme. With a pair of long nosed forceps and a cotton swab he operates through the nose, twisting the forceps high in the sinus cavity. He performs 28 different operations throughout the body with this technique. While gruesome for the viewers, many feel only a mild unpleasantness whilst others experience considerable discomfort. One woman said that the sensation was so good she was sorry Joao had not done the other one. One man interviewed declared he had six broken bones in his feet repaired by this method. A similarly illogical operation is performed by scraping the eyeball with a kitchen knife, a procedure absolutely impossible by any medical doctor. Apart from the removal of eye tumours and cataracts, he also operates elsewhere in the body by scraping the eye. At no time was there an anaesthetic or aseptic used in any operation. Incisions produce virtually no bleeding, a fact which astounds doctors and scientists alike.
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