so, but she could get no more help from them as her money had run out. It has been pointed out, a trifle facetiously, that it is Mark, and not Doctor Luke, who gives this adverse comment on her encounters with the physicians! Was there an element of superstition in her idea that contact with the clothes of Jesus would get healing for her? Possibly. It is rather like the idea of mana, a word used by students of religion for the idea that something of a person’s power, particularly that of an eminent