A true relation of the wonderful cure of Mary Maillard, (lame almost ever since she was born,) on Sunday the 26th of November 1693 : with the affidavits and certificates of the girl, and several other credible and worthy persons, who knew her both before and since her being cured : to which is added, a letter from Dr. Welwood to the Right Honourable the Lady Mayoress, upon that subject.

Date:
1787
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Credit: A true relation of the wonderful cure of Mary Maillard, (lame almost ever since she was born,) on Sunday the 26th of November 1693 : with the affidavits and certificates of the girl, and several other credible and worthy persons, who knew her both before and since her being cured : to which is added, a letter from Dr. Welwood to the Right Honourable the Lady Mayoress, upon that subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the Name of Miracles of Nature. But I challenge any of them to find out in all the Annals of their Medicinal Science one Ex- ample fo wonderful and aftonidling as this, and all the Philofophers in the World to explain it naturally. Now, though there fhould be only tliis in it, I am apt to think they could not but fay, that it is an Operation immediately proceeding from God; but if a Chriftian will fuperadd to it the remarkable Circum* fiance of her reading the Word of God, and the Difcourfe that the Girl had, fo full of Faith, at the Time when her Healing was cfteHing; I can’t believe but that he mull confefs, that this here is as manifeft and notorious a Miracle as thofe the Gofpel fpeaks of. Let us fubjoin to this another Reafon. All the World knows, that when a didocated Thigh or Leg is put into its Place by the Skill of an Artift, the Patient Hiuft keep his Bed, or repofe himfelf for at lead tv/o or three Weeks after; there muft be I know not how many Bindings about the Place fo fet, and a World of other ne- cedary Precautions ufed. For without them they could never effe6l the Cure — And, humanly fpeaking, all the fame Cafe was as necedary here in this Cafe as in I any, her Infirmity being of feveral Years I, ftanding ; but now let us fee what Care fire B, bad of herfelf; iuftead of rejling her re- fi ored