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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    iippearance or indication of her having been recently ill, and has continued apparently in the most perfect state of health, and says she is without pain or uneasiness in any way, and go- ing about t^e house with the same apparent ease as the rest of the family. JAMES S. MORSELL, [Seal.] No. 10. CAPTAIN JAMES HOB AN. City and County of Washington,} District of Columbia. 5 On this 26th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1824, personally appears before me, a justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid, James Iloban, Architect of the President’s house, an Alderman for the city of Washington, and one of the justices of the peace for the county aforesaid, who being sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that he has been well acquainted with Mrs. Ann Mat- tingly, and intimate in the family of her brother Captain Car- bery. Mayor of this city, with whom she has resided many years. That for the last five or six years, he has resided within about a quarter of a mile of her residence, and has fre- quently visited her during the illness with which she has, for that period, been afflicted. That from about the first week of August, to t; e nineteenth of December last, in consequence of one of his daughters being very ill, when on a visit in the fami- ly of Captain Carbery, and unable to be removed therefrom, this deponent was at Captain Carbery’s almost every day, with the exception of about 14 days, when confined by sickness, and several times on some days; and that he, almost always on these occasions, saw Mrs. Mattingly; that she appeared, at times, in great agony, and had a violent cough and spitting of blood. That on the fourth day of this month, as this deponent believes, he was informed that Mrs. Mattingly had expressed a desire to see him, in compliance with which desire he visit- ed her, in her chamber; that he found her then in a more de- plorable state, if possible, than he had ever before seen her; and she appeared to be almost suffocated, struggling for breath, and almost deprived of life. That it was proposed, by a lady- in attendance, to administer laudanum, but one of her sisters observed, that one hundred drops had been administered to ker that morning, and one hundred more but a short time since, without producing any good effect. That this deponent having no hope of Mrs. Mattingly’s being able to speak to him, withdrew, under the strong belief, that she could not long survive. Deponent further saith, that at an early hour, on the 3