Faith healing served as health care

  • Many folks living in the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1900s had little or no doctors in the remote areas and relied on those with the knowledge, or the “gift,” to heal certain ailments. The Bible verse in Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 6, was read to stop bleeding.
    Many folks living in the Appalachian Mountains in the early 1900s had little or no doctors in the remote areas and relied on those with the knowledge, or the “gift,” to heal certain ailments. The Bible verse in Ezekiel chapter 16, verse 6, was read to stop bleeding.
This is the first of a three-part series. In the southern Appalachian Mountains from the 1800s through the Great Depression there was essentially no health care in the remote areas of North Carolina…

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