Examination of evidence and report to the Most Reverend James Whitfield ... upon the miraculous restoration of Mrs. Ann Mattingly, of the city of Washington, D.C. ... together with the documents / By the Right Reverend John England.

  • England, John, 1786-1842.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Examination of evidence and report to the Most Reverend James Whitfield ... upon the miraculous restoration of Mrs. Ann Mattingly, of the city of Washington, D.C. ... together with the documents / By the Right Reverend John England. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This aboTe history of the miraculous cure of Mrs. Ann Mattingly is corrobo¬ rated by thirty-seven affidavits before justices of the peace They can be seen in a book 0- pamphlets, at the ATHENEUM OF PHILADELPHIA, marked on the bacK i‘mphlets,VoI. 21, C 89.” Amongst them the following are the most important : MRS. ANN MATTINGLY. lif) l>li r: . District of Columbia, City and') „ County of Washington. j March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eiffht hun- thp personally appears before me, a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid, Mrs. Ann Mattingly, of the City of Wasbino-trin i, being sworn on the Holy Evangels of AlL=ghty God, deposeth and faith ThaJ nf tbp 1 believes; that during the summer of the year 1817 she began to feel an uneasy sensation in her left side wbiob continued gradually to increase in painfulness, and in a short time concentrated to a point on the left side of her left breast, when she could distinctly S f small lump at that spot, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, which becam Jso bad as to be rendered extremely painful by the slightest touch of her finger or pressure of her clothes. That some time in the month of September of thp same year, at the request of her brother Thomas, she showed the parts affLted to Doctors Jones, Cutbush, and M’Williams, the two first named of whom di rected external ^plications of hemlock and mercurial ointment, and prescHbed other remedies, but the means resorted to did not disperse the lUn ar Zn^^ ^ any re mf whatever That on .he Monday after Earef Mtday,'’inTe1:f 1818, she was seized with a violent puking, which continued at intervals W several hours, during which Dr. Jones was called in, and prescribed jor her • that her indisposition continued to increase for several days, when it assumed a more alarming aspect. During this period she was visited by Dr Blake te aid of Dr. Jones, and was by them put under a course of mercm-y, which nrof duced a salivation of several weeks continuance, but from whic^ she derfved no more benefit than from the external applications. During a year or more^ after this penod, she was unable to leave her bed, or for montL at a Hm! . ’ turn herself in it, without assistance. That during this neriod Dr Tone. , * constantly visited her from once to three times adly;\S7often atnTg'hYl“th‘ out affording any other inconsiderable and temporary relief- that <5bp occasionally visited during this period by Dr. BlLe, a^nd once by Dr ’shra'f from neither of whoin did she derive more relief than had been afforded bv the prescriptions of Dr. Jones, and that she continued in the most distressine’^^ dition until the tenth of the present month; the violence of her sufferingfhow-