A collection of affidavits and certificates, relative to the wonderful cure of Mrs. Ann Mattingly : which took place in the city of Washington, D.C. on the tenth of March, 1824.

  • William Matthews
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1824
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Credit: A collection of affidavits and certificates, relative to the wonderful cure of Mrs. Ann Mattingly : which took place in the city of Washington, D.C. on the tenth of March, 1824. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I 36 eucc being capable of reorganizing, into a perfe(it state ot health, and in an instant, such a frame as hers was, the wreck of sickness and corrupt ANTHONY KOHLMANN. Sworn and subscribed befor% WILLIAM THORNTON. [Seal.] Justice of the Peace. No. 33. THE REV. STEPHEN LARIGAUDELLE DURUISSON^ I have had the honor of Mrs. Mattingly’s acquaintance, (a sister of Oaptain Thomas Carbery, the present Mayor of Washington,) for more than two j^ears, I habitually visited her, and always found her a prey to an inward illness, with which I was told, that she had been taken about six years ago. The symptoms which I witnessed, or frequently heard her- self state, were the following: She constantly felt excruciating pains in her chest, on the left side. Tt seemed as if her inside frame, in that part, were corroded by a cancer. She usually threw up blood and a mixture of comipt matter, in such quantity, that it may well be said to have been by full bowls. Owing, no doubt, to that internal ulcer, her breath was extremely offensive, of- tentimes she spoke to me of a red and hard spot, below her left breast, which at intervals threatened to break open. From the violence of the pains in her breast, she had lost the use of her left arm, so far as to have been unable to lift it up, or to use it in dressing, without assistance, for about six years. In her worst paroxisms, which lasted, not merely a few days, but whole weeks, and returned several times each )^ear, it was impossible for her to take any substantial food whatever: She has spent so long as four weeks together, literally without swallowing any thing else than a few cups of tea or coffee. She then used to be reduced to that state of weakness, that she could not stir from her bed; and it was a subject of astonishment to all her friends, that she lived. Towards the last period, she experienced an increase of malady. She was taken about six months ago with a cough, which became, worse and worse, and for the last six weeks was such, as jto place her in imminent danger of ex- piring in the height of the fits. I do not recollect ever witnessing any thing like it, both for violence and the puking of blood with which it was attended. Finally, she was taken, a few weeks since, with chills and fevers. In short, so continual was the state of suffering of Mrs. Mattingly, that 1 remember only one period when she enjoyed some re- lief, and that but a temporary and very incomplete one; particularly for the few weeks immediately preceding her cure, she was in a sort of agony, which, I found, almost every body judged must have been the precursor of her departure from this world. The physicians consulted on the case, or who attended, had declared that it was evidently out of the reach of medicine. Mrs. Mattingly has always been remarkably religious in her disposition: some of hei friends suggested the step of applying to Prince Hohenlohe, for his prayers in her favour, as the power granted him from Heaven to cure suddenly dis- eases beyond the reach of human skill became daily more manifest. She did not ask it: her resignation was as great as her sufferings were ac*- cute; she agreed to it, however, as a means of recovery, in which she felt inclined to put great confidence. The Rev. Mr. Anthony Kohlmann was to write to the Prince. Capt. Thomas Carbery, on the occasion, in. March, 1823, drew up a statement of Mrs. Mattingly’s sickness in its origin and progress, which was confirmed, under sigmature, by Doctor .Tones, her attending physician. Mr. Kohlmann was obliged to leave the city, to reside in Prince George’s County, without having written t«>
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