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.

  • Matthews, William, 1770-1854.
Date:
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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    extremely offensive—from that moment, all kinds of unpleasant effluvia from her stomach have been dispelled ; and she declares that she con- stantly has a taste like that of loaf sugar in her mouth. Whilst in Baltimore, on the 11th, 1 hastily drew up, in French, a provisional account of this glorious event for I*rlnce Hohenlohe, and leit it with the Rev. W Beschter, Pastor of St. John’s Church, to be forward- ed by the first opportunity. 1 deemed that step a duty of gratitude to the truly blessed man, whom the Almight} thus makes the instrunient of his wonders for the benefit of mankind ; as I now feel it a sacrtd pait iii- aumbent upon me to procure authenticity and notoriety to this deposi- tion, in order that God may be praised in his works; a deposition to which I swear on the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, with full certitude of accuracy, and which, I trust, I would subscribe with my •wn blood. STEPHEN LARIGAUDELLE DUBUISSON. City of Washington, iTthJHarch, 1824. District of Columbia, 7 County of Washington. 5 Be it remembered, that on this 17th day of March, 1824, before the subsariber, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the said county, personally appears the Rev. Stephen Larigaudelle Dubisson, Assistant Pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, in the City of Washington, who being sworn according to law, makes oath that the foregoing statement, sub- scribed by him, and any matter and thing therein contained is true. >¥itness my hand, JOHN N. MOULDER, [Seal.] Justice of the Peace. No. 34. Mrs. Ann Mattingly, from St. Mary^s County, state of Maryland, has been a respectable and pious member of my congregation for about fourteen years. The invelerate disease, •f which she was lately cured, commenced in the year 1817. In the spring of the ensuing year, it assumed a very alarming appearance; she was considered to be in danger of death, and received the rites of the church as a dying person. Her com- plaint was a pain in the left side, which caused constant spit- ting and frequent vomiting of blood, followed by great debility, and sometimes cramps in the breast. She told me she also experienced a most acute and incessant pain, from a lump on her left side, of considerable magnitude, which was quite hard, and inflamed, and which deprived her of the use of her left arm: She had recourse to various remedies to bring the lump to a head, or to scatter it, but in vain; it continued hard and undiminished, till the moment of her cure. During the five first years of her illness, t visited her two or three times a month, and sometimes oftener; but during the last year, I vis- ited her regularly once a week to receive her confession, and jive her communion. Although her pains were not equally ei- eruciating, yet, as she told me, she never enjoyed a moment’s cassation of them. During the five or six last months of her illness, she was afflicted with a most distressing and obstinate