In Faith in the great physician, Heather D. Curtis explores how the late nineteenth-century divine faith-healing movement transformed the ways that American Protestants not only endured suffering but also sought health. The work focuses exclusively upon the movement as experienced by middle-class and upper-middle-class Protestants in Great Britain and New England between 1860 and 1900. An introductory chapter situates the study within the historiography of the faith-healing movement. Before the emergence of the divine healing movement, Protestants accepted prolonged illness and debilitating injuries with passive resignation. In other words, Protestants believed that they simply had to accept sickness as a means of grace. As Curtis demonstrates in the first chapter, Christian literature venerated those who endured suffering with pious stoicism. The second chapter chronicles the rise of the faith cure movement, devoting particular attention to the grand theological and cultural changes reshaping late nineteenth-century America. Instead of accepting pain in ‘sanctified suffering’, the movement encouraged the sick to experience victory over affliction. To healers and the healed, genuine faith precipitated physical restoration. The third chapter offers a detailed analysis of the theology of divine healing. The fourth chapter explores various rituals involved in faith healing, such as the laying on of hands, and analyses their psychological and spiritual consequences. The fifth chapter investigates how faith healers constructed sacred spaces in their ‘houses of healings’. The sixth chapter uncovers the links between faith healing and Protestant efforts to evangelise non-Christians and reform society. The conclusion provides a brief summary of the history of faith healing in the aftermath of the emergence of the Pentecostal movement in the early twentieth century. Faith in the great physician both challenges and enriches conventional wisdom about the faith-healing movement in the period under consideration. According to historians of American religion and culture, nineteenth-century health reform and healing movements, such as Adventism, Spiritualism, Christian Science and New Thought, provided a radical alternative to evangelical Protestantism. Curtis argues convincingly that proponents of faith cures also contested inherited ideas about health and suffering. But faith healers did so within the confines of classical Protestant theology and spirituality. The theological debates and cultural forces that led to the emergence of the faith-healing movement have been the subject of numerous historical studies. Curtis further refines our understanding of this Protestant movement by exploring the ‘lived religion’ of those involved in the faith-healing tradition. By examining the ‘devotional ethics’ of participants, he recovers how their patterns of piety not only provided them with means to sustain the traditional Protestant beliefs governing the relationship between sanctity and suffering but also offered them resources for reimagining conventional modes of belief and behaviour. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, including the personal papers of divine healers and published material, this carefully-researched and eloquently written work provides a fascinating window into an important movement that reshaped a sizeable portion of late nineteenth-century transatlantic Protestantism.