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The miraculous conformist, or, An account of severall marvailous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Valentine Greatarick : with a physicall discourse thereupon, in a letter to Robert Boyle. With a letter relating some other of his miraculous cures, attested by E. Foxcroft / by Henry Stubbe.

  • Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
Date:
1666
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Credit: The miraculous conformist, or, An account of severall marvailous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Valentine Greatarick : with a physicall discourse thereupon, in a letter to Robert Boyle. With a letter relating some other of his miraculous cures, attested by E. Foxcroft / by Henry Stubbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of Divines fay that.nothing more kindly reftores dequit™ cayed Nature, thenthe Embracesofan bifhag , of {uti young, {pritely and Beautifull Damfell, as you may fe qe in their large Notes upon the firft Chapter of the firtait™ Book of Kings. To-explaine the nature and manner of Mr Greatad ricks working upon the patients for their Cure, I thalll: premife fome things. Firft, That all the Difeafes and diftempers M‘ Greqaittt atarick meddles with, have their effence either in chop Hk?) mafle of Blood: and: Spirits (or nervous Liquour) on ap in the particular Temperament of the parts of thogits,t Body, ik Secondly, That of the Difeafes and Infrmities which fmn he meddles with, he Cures’ none wherein there is ade-} mbit cay 1a Nature, bat onely fuch as wherein fhe feems only fli opprefied by fome Heterogeneous Ferment, either ex. b Shon, 0 citing an Ebullition and paine, or Coagulating and fix-fieth ing the bloodand fpirits. This is a confefled cruch byg Chal him, he refufing ftill to touch the Eyes of fuch as theial tris fightisquite perithed: fo for Bares that'are Deaf upon any fuch accident that hath extinguifhed the Natural) faculty of the pare. And there being the fame rea fon for inward diftempers as to cheir caufes, his fayling astomany, andtherelapfe of many after a momentanW fhew further by and by. “Thirdly, It feems to me very imaginable thar there may be given by God'fach a> Natural Crafis and Effu- via confequentiall hereunto; chat the°ftroaking with his Flaad for foms fpace fo as to communicate they Virtue ay