I think we may feel sure that it was not the King's touch that made the cure in any instance, but the patient's faith in the efficacy of a King's touch.

Genuine and remarkable cures have been achieved through contact with the relics of a saint.

Is it not likely that any other bones would have done as well if the substitution had been concealed from the patient?
When I was a boy a farmer's wife who lived five miles from our village had great fame as a faith-doctor--that was what she called herself.

Sufferers came to her from all around, and she laid her hand upon them and said, "Have faith--it is all that is necessary," and they went away well of their ailments.

She was not a religious woman, and pretended to no occult powers.