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Traditional Healing

Photo: Traditional healer using heated horns

Treating aches the traditional way, a healer in Bayt al Faqih, Yemen, makes a series of incisions, then places a heated horn over each to create suction. Finally, through a tiny hole, he draws out blood.

Photograph by Steve McCurry

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