Chapter VII - Physiology
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The following is a case of heart disease described in
The following is a case of heart disease described in
a letter from a lady at New York.
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"Please find inclosed a check for five hundred dol-
"Please find inclosed a check for five hundred dol-
lars in reward for your services, that can never be re-
paid. The day you received my husband's letter I
became conscious, for the first time for forty-eight
hours; my servant brought my wrapper and I rose from
bed and sat up. The attack of the heart had lasted
two days, and no one thinks I could have survived but
for the mysterious help I received from you. The en-
largement of my left side is all gone, and the M. D.'s
pronounce me entirely rid of heart disease. I have been
afflicted with it from infancy, until it became organic
enlargement of the heart and dropsy of the chest. I was
only waiting, and almost longing, to die; but you have
healed me; and yet how wonderful to think of it, when
we have never seen each other! We return to Europe
next week. I feel perfectly well. L. M. ARMSTRONG."
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Mr. R. O. Badgeley, of Ohio, wrote: –
Mr. R. O. Badgeley, of Ohio, wrote: –
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"My painful
"My painful
and swelled foot was restored at once on your receipt
of my letter, and that very day, I put on my boot and
walked several miles." He had previously written me,
"A stick of timber has fallen from a building on the
top of my foot, crushing the bones somewhat."
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A lady at Louisiana wrote: –
A lady at Louisiana wrote: –
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"Your wonderful sci-
"Your wonderful sci-
ence is proved to me. I was a helpless sufferer six long
years, confined to my bed, unable to sit up one hour in
the long, long twenty-four. All I know of my cure is
this; the day you received my letter I felt a change pass
over me, I sat up the whole afternoon, went to the table
with my family at supper, and have been growing better
every day since; I call myself well. JENNY R. COFFIN."
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The following is from a lady in Lynn:
The following is from a lady in Lynn:
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"My little son,
"My little son,
one year and a half old, was a great sufferer from dis-
ease of the bowels, until he was reduced to almost a
skeleton, and growing worse constantly; could take
nothing but gruel, or some very simple nutriment. At
that time the physicians had given him up, saying they
could do no more for him, but you came in one morn-
ing, took him up from the cradle in your arms, kissed
him, laid him down again and went out, In less than
an hour he called for his playthings, got up and ap-
peared quite well. All his symptoms changed at once.
For months previously nothing but blood and mucous
had passed his bowels, but that very day the evacuation
was natural, and he has not suffered since from his com-
plaint, and it is more than two years since he was
cured. Immediately after you saw him, he ate all he
wanted, and one thing was a quantity of cabbage just
before going to bed, from which he never suffered in
the least. L. C. Edgecomb, Lynn, Mass."
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We were called to Mr. Clark, in Lynn, with hip dis-
We were called to Mr. Clark, in Lynn, with hip dis-
ease, saw him in the afternoon for the first time; his
physicians had probed the ulcer that day, and informed
us the bone was carious; the patient had not been up
nor turned on his couch for months. On entering the
house we were told he was dying; his wife stood over
him weeping. We stood at his bedside a moment; he
sank to sleep; woke presently, saying, "I feel like a
new man, my suffering is all gone." In a few hours
he rose from his bed, dressed himself, and that after-
noon took supper with his family. The next day we
saw him in the yard, and have not seen him since, but
are informed he went to work in two weeks, and is now