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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    <h^ hou.se, with the said Mrs. Mattingly, since the tenth of this month, she declares that there has been no indication of the least degree of sickness in her, up to the present inoment;„ and that, so far from there remaining any symptom of the nial ady whicli afflicted her so long, Mrs. Mattingly has evidently continued to increase in flesh and strength, from the moment of her restoration, on the morning of the tenth instant, to the present time. Given under my hand and seal, at the City of Washington, on the day and year first above written. JAMES HOBAN, [Seal.] Justice of the Peace. No. 5. MISS ANNE MARIA FITZGERALD. 1 have been intimately acquainted with Mrs. Ann Matting- ly about fourteen years, and since my first acquaintance with her, she has been distinguished for her exemplary piety and resignation under extraordinary afflictions, as well as for re- markable uniformity of temper and cheerfulness of disposition. For upwards of six years, she has been afflicted with a most distressing malady, during which I have been in the habit of visiting her almost every week, and sometimes two or three times a w^eek, often remaining with her several days together. My opportunities, thereTore, of torming an opinion of the ex- tent of her sufferings, have been the best, and enable me to say, that they have appeared to exceed those of any other per- son I ever knew: Indeed, I have often supposed her to be dying, and several times actually dead, I have often seen her throw up large quantities of b!ood[ with corrupt matter, which vras so offensive, that I found it extremely unpleasant to re- main in the room. A physician, who had examined Mrs. Mat- tingly, declared several times, in my presence, that her ma- lady was, in his opinion, an internal cancer; and I have always understood that it was considered so by others. I have fre- quently felt and seen a lump on her left side, apparently as large as an egg, a little pointed on the surface, and sometimes much inflamed, and in which, when lightly touched or pressed with a finger, Mrs. Mattingly com])lained of an excessive pain, which she said thrilled wdth a kind of burning sensation in her left side, and tlirough her left arm, to her fingers; and she has often complained, that she felt ae if a person was bor- ing her side, and pinching pieces out of it. For six months prior to her recovery, she had the most distressing cough I ever witnessed, accompanied, for the last few weeks, with chills and fevers, cold clammy sweats day and night, and se- vere cramps in her breast, side, and limbs, and sometimes in