Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29 Paradise Street.

  • Liverpool Museum of Anatomy.
Date:
[1877?]
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Credit: Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29 Paradise Street. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    haffwS wean W;LS born in Jan»wy, 1851, at a place called Bois d’Haine, halt way between the towns of Mons and Charlerio, in Belgium and until she was seventeen years of age enjoyed robust health. However, from the ginning of i867, till the 16th of April in the following year, she suffered Zee LtZ Xra I °h PH3 *•“ tba tead; her appefi/e was co^Sdy fhouVht shP wJ-16 h • pnl She was 80 exhaus^ed that her friends FronftLfhrl7«h dymg’ -ai!d J.n ^sequence she received the sacrament. fn th. ^ u T rTdly lmProved- on the 21st, she was able to a k to the parish church, at a distance of three quarters of a mile This may be regarded as the turning point from a girl to a woman And now first^pDearedPan,Three dayS fr°m this walk’the Stigmata* Phenomena of a*d thlrfceen ^eeks ^ter, July 17th, she began to exhibit the hinoH k f Ectascy, or Trances. On Friday, the 24th of April, 1868 On Frida^VaVsn emr°a !®ft Side’ betweeu the fifth and Jixth ribs On Friday, May 8th, blood began to flow from both feet, from the upp^r pa ms and toclfnfb Zi?’ a5d bV*ine °’ctook “ flowed fromfhe foreTead nicb n f both.hands- Finally, on the 28th September, the there aL TheTw* T'* ^th b!ood’ and s«t>Seqnently began to flow the present dlte 1877 TK^ haTe reourred tcgnlarly every Friday up to rne present date 1877. There are no wounds, nor is the skin cracked or seven eieht-nofhC WeekI Tl? l'J!laritit-T of blood lost Friday is from twentTChourl qa '° half 3 pta* ! the fl°W °f blood often her flrsfflfofe, '£'ace*- 0n the 17th »t July, 1868, she fell into- ,A„ of confirmed Ecstacy, and a similar attack has occurred regu¬ larly every subsequent Friday, at nearly the same hour, beginning between From the Ze Zt fath? and endin= about *» & with W ^ thm the ecstacies begin she becomes perfectly immovable, h„nf] h ,eyes ^lde open, but fixed and turned upwards. The bleeding- hands rest enveloped in cloths on her knees, at the same time Wood is cheeks 1? the stomata of side and feet, and it trickles down her temples lZeks’ and nfck; . Tbe expression of her face is that of wrapt attention, if L fraSt °St m the c°ntemplation of some distant object, and at other times her features are so animated and full of emotion, and a face which ormnarily is almost plain, becomes positively beautiful. droDseoftii?iHTiatefiF>am?St aPal]in» manner; the arms fall; the head mnched and th d f ° u* chest 5 the eyes are closed; the nose becomes of ice and a I h.eG°me* Very Pale 7 while the bauds feel like pieces o ice, and a cold sweat breaks out over the whole body. In a little time- ecttltic fit ia'over an°ther is looked at and recognised, and the and°heardT b£ ^ Persuasion’ to tell ^bat she has seen -bbearif Th fuTtl0ns of the organs of special senses are totally sus- She f°W. twenty-seven years old, and she has been in this extraordinary state nine years. # Siiymata is a term applied by Roman Catholic writers to the marks of CrucifixionS °n °Ur baV10ur’s body’ as shown in most pictures of the ^ foTApril ai871DtiC °f revelation8 see McMillan's Maja-