Sweeping assertions are, as a rule, misleading, and are especially unfortunate when they bring discredit on a method of great value. The only useful reply to them is a dispassionate examination of the ascertainable facts. In the following pages Micklem has attempted such an examination of a subject which has suffered much from broad generalizations. Partial Contents: beliefs current in New Testament times liable to affect diagnosis of disease and methods of healing; leprosy; demon possession; fever; paralysis; lameness; blindness; deaf stammerer; woman with a hemorrhage; woman with a spirit of infirmity; dropsy; restoration of ear of high priest's servant; raisings from the dead.