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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$No. 23, MISS CATHARINE II. CLEARY. . City, ,,ipril\9th, Dunng' the four weeks ])revious to Mrs. Matting-ly’s recovery, I saw lier frequenth, and from the extreme suffering she appeared to endure, it seemed impossible for her to survive without speedy relief, whicii seemed out of all human power to give. She had a violent racking cough, enough to deprive the strongest frame of strength, attended by a constant vomiting of blood, which was sometimes so clotted as to appear like liver. She had entirely lost the use of her left anri, and she was reduced to the very verge of the grave. I saw her on the moridng of the 8th of March, in the most agonizing pain, (luring which time, she swooned twice, in endeavouring to vomit, and was insensible so long, that 1 did not think she would ever recover. I saw her again on the tenth of March, when her cough and every symptom of disease had left her, being the first day for six years she had passed without suftering excruciating pain. I have been frequently in, Mrs. Mattingly’s company, since the 10th of March, and she remains per- fectly well to the present date. CATHARINE H. CLEARY, of Virginia- Sworn before JAMES IIOBAN, Alderman. No. 24. MRS. HARRIET DE LA PALME BAKER. District of Columbia, City and') County of Washington 5 On this 24th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1824, before me, the subsc'ibcr, a Justice of the Peace, for the county aforesaid, personally ap- pear® Vfrs Harriet Dela Palme Baker, aged about forty one years, the wife ,ioha M. Baker, formerly consul of the U. States, at the Balearic IsUn U,^cc. and now in the Department of State, who deposeth and saith, that si-e live.d for six months, in the year 1822, next door neighbour to the f mily ot Capt. Thos. Carbery, and frequently visited Mrs .Mattingly, the s;sterof Capt. Carbery, and observed her intractable illnes, the cure of which, was considered as jncontestibly beyond the power of medicine. That, at the reque.st of Mrs. Mattingly, she put her hand on the tumoui’ below the patient’s breast, which she found to be a hard substance, very sensmlv protuberant, and nearly of the size of an egg in extent. That in foe summer of 1822, Mrs. Mattingly, who, she understood, had not left her r.som for several years, having been helped down stairs on an afternoon she, vlrs. Pc-ker, assi.sted in helping her back again up stairs, which was not done without great difficulty, by three persons; and afterwards, she heard that Mrs. Mattingly had puked a great deal of blood, in conse- quence of that afternoon’s exertion; that she, besides, remembers once seeing Mrs. Mattingly throw up the quantity, of at least a common tum- bler fi:ll of corrupt blood, and on that occasion assisted her. This deponent further saith, that she alw^ays was edified with Mrs. Mat- tingly’s conversation and entire resignation, under her severe afilictions; that she joined in the prayers of the nOvena, as directed by the Rev. Mr. Dubuisson; and when, on Friday, the 12th of this month, returning from the country, she vi.sited Mrs Mattingly, and found her restored to pertecl health, by so striking an effect of tiod’s power, she could not forbear kneeling down in thanksgiving, and embracing Mrs. Mattingly in con- gratulation. Sworn before CHS. H. AV. AVHARTON. Justice of thr ••$