THE "MIRACLE" CURE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 11 May 1912, Page 10

THE "MIRACLE" CURE.

NORMAL HEALTH MAINTAINED.

The case, of Miss Dorothy Kerin, of Milkwood Road, Herne Hill, the girl of twenty-one "miraculously" restored to health, still occupies the attention of the medical profession. The extraordinary improvement in her condition, amounting virtually to a complete retu™ to normal health, is maintained. The girl had been an invalid for seven years, had been bedridden for five, for two had been without the use of her limbs. A medical practitioner, whose good faith is beyond doubt, had satisfied himself that she was dying of consumption, diabetes, and other terrible [ ailments. Without explanation, except what she has given herself, she rose from her bed one Sunday evening in February and walked about the room, for the time being in the full possession of her physical and mental faculties. The patient's explanation was that she saw "a sheet of fire," felt two hands take hers, and a voice whisper that her sufferings were over. MEDICAL EVIDENCE. Light i« thrown on the case by the letters written to the British Medical Journal by two of the many doctors who have attended Miss Kerin during the last six years. Dr. March, medical officer of the Reading Sanatorium in which Miss Kerin received treatment some six years ago, states that to the best of his belief she was not suffering from actual tuberculosis at the time, but from an extremely acute and complicated form of hysteria. Dr. Hitchcock, of Retford, declares that while Miss Kerin was under his treatment in 1908 he could detect no certain traces of consumption or diabetes. She seeriied remarkably patient and uncomplaining, yet without any nope of recovery. "She preferred," he says, "to lie still with the blinds half-drawn, and with her eyes halfclosed." OBSCURE DISEASE. . Miss Kerin, it may be said, is now 'under the close observation of an eminent Harley Street specialist. When interviewed by the Morning Leader this gentleman demurred at making any definite statement as to whether his patient did or did not at present show definite evidence of tuberculosis and the other ailments from which she has' apparently suffered until lately. He pointed out, however, that hysteria in itself remains one of the most interesting and obscure of all diseases. A patient who recovers from hysteria, especially of the acute type here indicated or suggested, pre-: sents a study fully as interesting as any sudden recovery from organic disease. —Home paper.