The physician in English history / by Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1913
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The physician in English history / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    former pains, and being snatched from the world changed pain and death for everlasting health and life.” He goes on to describe the uncovering of the saint’s body sixteen years later. She lay as if asleep. The bystanders “ pointed out to me the wound of the incision, which I had made, cured ; so that in a wonderful way instead of an open and gaping wound with which she was buried there appeared very slender traces of a scar.” Had we been present we should probably have thought that the in¬ cision had thoroughly drained the abscess and that the edges of the wound had fallen together. What was the nature of the swelling ? A remark which immediately folfows Cynifrid’s description shows that the swelling was not an incident of an acute disease but had existed for some time in the saint’s neck. “ She was much delighted with this kind of illness and used to say * I know truly that I ought to bear the weight of disease
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