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[a]He replied, “As far as the heart and liver are concerned, when you burn them and the smoke rises in the presence of someone, man or woman, who is afflicted by a demon or an evil spirit, that affliction will disappear for good and will never plague that person again. As regards the gall, if you anoint the eyes of someone where white patches have appeared on them and then blow on those patches, the eyes will be healed.”

10 Raphael’s Counsels. When they had entered Media and were drawing near to Ecbatana,

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Footnotes

  1. Tobit 6:8 See verse 17 and especially Tob 8:3; 11:4, 11f. The therapeutic powers of the entrails of fish were recognized by ancient medicine, but here, it is a question of the divine assistance through the medium of the angel.