C. Hiram Carson

C. Hiram Carson (December 2, 1843 - July 3, 1912), or Hiram C. Carson, sometimes Charles Hiram Carson, was an American physician and Spiritualist who operated the "Temple of Health" at Kansas City, Missouri from 1888 until his death, his practice offering magnetic healing in the form of the laying on of hands (rubbed with capsicum vaselin) as well as "magnetised paper" treatments.

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In addition to his own writings, Carson published a Spiritualist book in 1908 entitled Through the Valley of the Shadow and Beyond, which he asserted had been received from his recently deceased wife Rose M. Carson, describing her journey through the after-world.