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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    being- duly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, deposeth and aaith, that she has been acrpiainted, tor many years,’with Mrs Ann Mat- tingly, and that since her sickness, she has been for several months at a time with her—that she has, therefore, been an eye avitness of the sufferings which she endured while laboring under this sickness has fi-equently seen her puking up large quantities of blood, sometimes mixed with matter of the most fetid nature—and sometimes laboring un- der a most Incessant and painful cough, with cramp in the stomach and limbs. She moreover deposeth, that she perceived and felt a lump on her left side, which she alwAyS represented as extremely painful. This deponent also states, that such was the violence of the pains w-hich Mrs. Mattingly suffered, that she ff-equently believed she would not outlive the day, and at day that she would not live to see the night. That two days before her restoration to health, she saw Mrs. Mattingly, and found her, if possible, worse than she had ever seen her, and evincing every sign of a speedy dissolution. That by tlie ’-equest of the afore- said Mrs. Mattingly, she united with others in performing a Novena, or nine days devotion, to the Sacred Name of Jesus, and continued to sav it till the 10th inst. wdien at about 8 o’clock in the morning of that day, she received U letter from Capt. Thomas Carbery, conveying the pleasing intelligence, that, at a quarter after 4 o’clock, Mrs. Mattingly left her bed in the most perfect health. DANE. BUSSARD. [Seal.] No. 17. MISS JANB MARY ANDREWS. Washington City, Afay 5th, 1824. 1 have been acquainted w^ith Mrs. A. Mattingly for a considerable time before her long protracted and distressing illness. I very frequently vi- sited, attended on, and sat up with her, since the spring of 1818, from which period, she has been confined to the house and for months at a time to the bed. Dui-ing these six years, she appeared to me to suffer more than I supposed it was possible for any constitution to sustain. Her disease was reputed to be an internal cancer, on the left .side. 1 always understood that it was beyond the reach of medicine. Since the first year of her sickness’she frequently vomited blood. Tor seve- ral months before her recovery, she had a most distressing cough, w^hich was latterly accompanied with chills and fevers, and severe cramp in her breast and limbs. 1 frequently saw her faint, and seemingly at the point of death. Her pains, she told me, appeared chiefly to proceed from a lump on her left side. In fact, her case was considered as entirely hope- less. Her disease continued, with increasing severit}', to the 9th of the month of March last- Understanding, on the morning of the 10th, that she had been suddenly, and in a most extraordinary manner, restored to perfect health, I visited her, and found her, to all appearance perfectly well, walking about the room, and cheei-fully conversing with her nume rous friends, and other persons, who had resorted, to the house, to see her after her wonderful cure. JANE MARY ANDREWS. Sworn to before me, a Justice of the Peace for the city and county of Washington, the dav and year above written. JAMES HOB AN, [Sbai.]