Arigo

It is a fact that Arigo treated over three hundred patients a day for nearly two decades and never charged for his services.

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

"The only possible track to take would be to ask for a suspended sentence, with a court order placing Arigo in the custody of a group of competent medical doctors who would work with him in trying to unveil the mystery of his powers…." (page 142).

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

It is true that no reader of Mr. Fuller's book can go to Brazil to be treated by Arigo in the flesh, because Arigo is dead.

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

If Mr. Fuller believes he has written an objective account of Arigo, one would suppose that he would feel obligated to call attention to this healer's similar abilities.

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

Further, Arigo worked with doctors, not against them.

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

It states very simply: Arigo should have had, before his death, a long, careful, objective medical study by highly qualified medical scientists.

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

Furthermore, your reviewer ignores the fact that I have and quote the opinions of many doctors and scientists who observed and investigated Arigo.

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

It is a fact that Brazil's former President, Juscelino Kubitschek, the creator of the capital city of Brasilia and himself a physician, brought his daughter to Arigo for successful treatment.

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

In combing the voluminous trial records, I found that they recorded time after time that there was no testimony that Arigo had harmed anyone is his quarter of a century practice.

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974

If the story did check out, and the book drew wide readership, what would it do to Arigo and his work?

Trick or Treatment Fuller, John G. 1974