The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that lingering energy is what an empath senses and intuits.

So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain?

He did a thoroughgoing job of cleaning up the broken glass.

Entered service of Leg. Coun. of U. C. May, 1822. Appointed Clerk Asst. to Leg. Coun. in 1841—Master in Chancery in 1851.