A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's : and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed / written by himself in a letter addressed to the honourable Robert Boyle. Whereunto are annexed, the testimonials of Robert Boyle, Bishop Wilkins, Bishop Patrick, Dr. Cudworth, Dr. Whichcot, and many other persons of distinction; concerning the chief matters of fact therein related.

Valentine Greatrakes

Date:: 1723

Credit: A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's : and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed / written by himself in a letter addressed to the honourable Robert Boyle. Whereunto are annexed, the testimonials of Robert Boyle, Bishop Wilkins, Bishop Patrick, Dr. Cudworth, Dr. Whichcot, and many other persons of distinction; concerning the chief matters of fact therein related. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$( 2$ ) that I would lay my Hands on him* and do him what good I could. [But, by the Way, take no¬ tice, That as God gave me the feveral Gifts from Time to Time, he always fent Patients that appli¬ ed themfelves to me, for I never fought after any from the firft Moment to this very inftant.] Whereupon I put my Hand on his Loins and Tlank, and immediately run the Pains out of him, fo that he was releafed, and could Hand upright without the leafl: Trouble: Then 1 put my Hand on his ulcerous Leg, (which the Chirurgeons, after they had Ihewed all their Skill on him, told him it was perifhed at the Bone, and fo mull: be cut off, but that he wanted 3/. to give one of them for his pains, as he informed me) which forthwith changed colour, and became red, and three of the five Ulcers clofed up, and the reft within a few Hours afterwards *, fo that he went out well, that could hardly, by the Help of his Staff, crawl in, and, within two Days afterwards, he fell to his Labour, (being a Mafonby Trade) and fo continu¬ ed feveral Months afterwards, to my knowledge, and to this inftant (for ought I know). The Man was a Yorkshire Man, one that the Right Ho¬ nourable the Earl of Cork brought from thence, and employed about the making of his Park-Wail nigh Lifmore. This and the former Inftances 1 re¬ late unto you, That you may not feek far for the Confirmation of the Truth, if you or others fhould diftruft my Report. The Tkurfday following I went to fee Colonel Phaire at Cabirmony, in the County of Cork, who, when I came, told me, he was vexed with an dgue\ my Reply was, that, through God’s Bleffing, I could cure him : He told me that l was welcome, and within an Hour it would feize him, who thought it impoffible for him to live two fits more, for after the cold ft, his hot one continued L r fourteen Hours in that extremity, that no Fever D could$

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