He comes from the Sixth Sphere. A doctor, in fact, who comes from a world other than Whicker's - indeed from "the Other World." He is one of the unorthodox healers to whom thousands of patients are looking today for a cure for their apparently incurable ailments. Many of these patients venture outside the established channels of the medical profession into the labyrinth of Bee Cure, Spirit Operation, Radiesthesia, and even Witchcraft. Who are these people? Are they gullible, stupid, superstitious - or ordinary people who believe medicine has failed them? More significant, perhaps - who are the "healers" who practise these methods, and others less extreme like Acupuncture, Osteopathy, Hypnotism, and Faith Healing? What are their claims? How do they justify them? And of course there's a "price" to pay. You choose your cure, pay your money and - then what?