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

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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$left side, and said, It felt as if a cord was drawing- her shoulder and side toc-ether. I visited her last spring, and she was then so ill, I could sc^cely hear her speak. I did not see her again until November last; she had then a very distressing cough, but was better thanshe was in the spring. I also sawher'in December. She was then able to walk from one room to tJie other; her cough still continued; she spit a great deal of blood, and told me that morning, she coughed and spit up quite a hard dr\ scab, thoue-ht it impossible she could live much longer with such a cough. I did not see her while she was so low, as I was told she was, in February; but heard she continued to grow worse, till tlic morning of her Wonder- fill rccovcrv. I went to see her the second day after she recovered, and found her apparently in perfect ease, without &ny cough; and the use of her left arm pei-fectly restored. I saw her again, last week, down stairs. She .aid she was quite well, and gaining strength Sworn and subscribed before me, this 27th March, 1824. SAM. N. SMALLWOOD, [Skal.] Justice of the Peace. No. 22* Miss Eliza Miller, Miss Harriet Miller, Miss Louisa H. Berryman. City and County of Washingtony~^ District of Columbia^ 5 Be it remembered, that on this 29th day of March, 1824, before tne, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for said county, personally appear Miss Kliza Miller and Miss Harriet Miller, daughters of Maj. Thos. Miller, of this city, and late of Virg. and Miss Louisa Berryman, daughter of Newton Ben-yman esq. of the general , Post Office Department, who depose and say, that they were introduced to Mrs. Ann Mattingly: Miss Berryman, about eighteen months ago, and the Misses Miller, about six months ago: that they now and then visited her, at the house of her brother, Capt. Thos. Carbery, Mayor of Wash- ington, and always found her in a dreadful state of health: that they ob- served her puking blood and coughing in a most distressing manner, and heard her complaining of great pains in her side: in short, that they thought she could not possibly survive. They particularly depose and say, that, on the 9th of the present month of March, late in the evening, they all three paid a visit to Mrs. Mattingly, and were under the im- pression that she was in a dying condition; that Miss Eliza Miller and Miss Louisa Berryman, assisted in waiting on her, in a fit of fainting; and Miss Eliza Miller, once ran down stairs for the Rev. Mr. Matthews, be- lieving that Mrs. Mattingly was at the moment of breathing her last. What they felt on the next morning, 10th, upon receiving the netvs that she was perfectly well, and themselves seeing her, at about 10 o’clock, actually in good health, they cannot describe. ELIZA MILLER, HARRIET MILLER, LOUISA H. BERRYMAN. Sworn and subscribed before me, the day and year first above men fioned. ^ TOIIN N. MOULDER, [Ssai..] 5 Justice of the Peace$