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
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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    C0I.liT!.C ri03S% &C. No. 1. MRS. ANN MATTINGLY. District of Columbia, Oily and > County of Washington. 3 On this 24th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, personally appears before me, a Justice of the Peace, for the county aforesaid, Mrs. Ann Mattingly, of the City of Washington, who being sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that she is now about forty years of age, as she believes; that during the summer of the year 1817, she began to feel an un- easy sensation in her left side, which continued gradually to increase in painfulness, and in a short time concentrated to a point on the left side of her left breast, when slie could distinct- ly feel a small lump at that spot, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, which became ^0 bad, as to be rendered extremely pain- ful by the sligh]^;g||||^uch of her finger or pressure of her clothes. That sonibGpIlime in the month of September, of the same year, at the'request of her brother Thomas, she showed the part affected to Doctors Jones, Cutbush, and M’Williams, the two first named of whom directed external applications of hemlock and mercurial ointment, and prescribed other reme- dies, but the means resorted to, did not disperse the lump, or produce any relief whatever. That on the Monday after Eas- ter Monday, in the year 1818, she was seized with a violent puking, which continued at intervals, for several hours, during which Dr. Jones was called in, and prescribed for her; that her indispo'iition continued to increase for several days, when it assumed a more alarming aspect. During this period, she was visited by Dr. Blake, in aid of Dr. Jones, and was by them put under a course of mercury, which produced a salivation of several weeks continuance, but from which she derived no more benefit than from the external applications. During a year or more, after this period, she was unable to leave her bed, or for months at a time to turn herself in it, without assis- tance. That during this period. Dr. Jones almost constantly visited her, from once to three times a day, and often at night, without affording any other than inconsiderable and tempora- ry relief; that she was also occasionally visited during this period by Dr. Blake, and once by Dr. Shaaf, from neither of whom did she derive more relief than had been afforded by the