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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    and of course 1 perceived no breaking or discharge of any. Such, in fact, was my exhausted and debilitated state, that it was with great difliculty 1 could spit at all during that night, and what I did spit was in smaller quantity than usual. Equal- ly erroneous is the opinion, that my imagination effected my cure. I had long expected the hour when Almighty God, in his mercy, wou d deliver me from my sufferings, by withtlraw'- ing me from a world, to me a scene of misery. I believed that hour was now at hand: with calm resignation I awaited it. The lump on iny side was so inflamed and so painful, that I could not suffer my arm to touch it; and the sinews of my arm being contracted, 1 could not keep it entirely ^rom touching my side. In this distressing situation, 1, calmly and without agitation of mind, awaited the final (^ose of my earthly mise- ries; when suddenly, in the twinkling of an eye, all pain left me, my body was entirely healed, and I found myself in per- fect health; a blessing of God, which I have continued to enjoy since, without interruption, to the present moment. Washington Citijy May Sd, 1824. ANN MATTINGLY. Sw^orn to before me, a Justice of the Peace, for the City and County of Washington, District of Columbia. JAMES HOBAN, [Seal.] Justice of the Peace. No. 2. CAPT. THOMAS CARBERY. City and County of Washingtoiiy > r, . District of Columbia. 5 On this 24th day of March, 1824, personally appears before me, the subscriber, chief justice of the United States, 1 homas Carbery, who being sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God deposeth and saith, that the statement of Mrs. Ann Mat- tingly’s case, marked A, and dated the 15th of March, 1823, was at that time drawn up by himself, and certified by Dr. Wil- liam Jones; that every thing stated therein is true, to the best of his knowledge and belief. He further deposeth and saith that his object and reason for making that statement of Mrs. Mat- tingly’s indisposition, and getting it certified by Dr. Jones, was, that it might be transmitted (through a Reverend gen- tleman of this city) to the Prince Hohenlohe, a Catholic Priest, at Bamberg,‘in Germany, who, it was said, and confi- dently believed, had performed, by the holy sacrifice of mass and other prayers offered up to God, many astonishing and mi-