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A folemn and earnest Appeal was made to PARLIA

MENT,

Monf. HERAULT, Lieutenant de Police, frequently feized immediately and examined the Witnesses and Subjects of thefe Miracles; but never could reach any Thing fatiffactory against them,

S The Opinion of the D. SYLVA, Physician, in the Case of 2. Madamoifelle THIBAUT,

The Duc de CHATILLON, a Person of the highest Rank and Family, gives evidence of a Cure performed on a Servant of his, who had lived feveral Years in his House with a vifible and palpable Infirmity,

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JA Cure was alfo performed on the Niece of the famous 1 PASCAL,

ib.

THIS CURE is corroborated by the Evidence of a Multitude of Nuns, Priefts, Phyficians, and Men of the World, and all of them Perfons of undoubted Credit,

ib.

The QUEEN-REGENT of France fent her own Phyfician to examine into THIS SUPPOSED MIRACLE, and he returns an abfolute Convert.

Had all this been a Cheat, it had moft certainly, fays the celebrated Hiftorian HUME, been detected by such fagacious and powerful Antagonists.

If we credit thefe Cures, we can with propriety
attribute them only to the powerful Influence
of HOPE on the human Frame, -

A friking Example of the Influence of the
Mind on Diforders of the Body exhibited at
the Siege of BReda, -

ib.

ib.

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The Diftrefs was fo great from the SCURVY, that the Garrison had Intentions of Surrendering that City,

To prevent which, the PRINCE of ORANGE had recourse to the Expedient of fending a MEDICINE to the ARMY, said to be of great Price, three Drops of which was to impart a healing Virtue to a Gallon of Wa

ter.

Each Phyfician was intrufted with only three
Small Phials of this MEDICINE,

Even the Commanders were not let into the

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The EFFECT of this Delufion was truly aftonishing; for many were quickly and perfectly recovered. Such as had not moved their Limbs for a Month before, were in a few Days feen walking the Streets with their Limbs found, ftraight, and whole,

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Even the Belly now of itself performed its Of fice, or at least with small Affiftance of Medicine,

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Many, who had declared that they had been rendered worfe by all former Remedies, recovered in a few Days, to their inexpreffible Joy, and the no lefs general Surprise, by their taking THEIR GRACIOUS PRINCE'S CURE, - ib.

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