faith-healer（n.）
同时， faith healer 自1874年起被使用，源自于 faith 和 healer 的组合。Faith-curer 出现于1883年。
The power which a man's imagination has over his body to heal it or make it sick is a force which none of us is born without. The first man had it, the last one will possess it. If left to himself, a man is most likely to use only the mischievous half of the force—the half which invents imaginary ailments for him and cultivates them; and if he is one of those very wise people, he is quite likely to scoff at the beneficent half of the force and deny its existence. ["Mark Twain," "Christian Science," 1907]
一个人的想象力对于身体的自愈或使其生病的影响是一种力量，我们每个人都生而拥有。第一个人就拥有了这种力量，而最后一个人也将拥有。如果让一个人自生自灭，他最有可能只会运用这种力量的有害一面——那面为他而虚构疾病并培养疾病； 如果他是那些非常聪明的人中的一个，他很可能会嘲笑这种力量的有益一面，否认其存在。["马克·吐温","基督教科学","1907年]
该词起源时间：1874年