CURED IN A NIGHT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143765, 13 April 1912, Page 3

CURED IN A NIGHT.

DYING ONE DAY, CURED THE : - NEXT. . One of the most extraordinary cases of “faith cur|b” over recorded has occurred at Miikwood Road, Hern© Hill, London. ' A'young woman, who one day was considered by the doctor, to be dying, says .she had 3 vision m the night, and next day. was perfectly well. For a fortnight she had, been blind, but suddenly she could see 1 ; .she had been deaf, and she could now heart for five years sho Had not walked, and' yet, to the amazement of her parents, sho asked for her dressing .gown, as : ' she wished to get up, . ■ “But you can’t get up; you. are not , well enough,” her prrouts told her. As h matter of fact, the doctor had told the parents she was dying, and that there was no hope. . ;; But the girl insisted on- haying the gown. Refusing assistance she put it on, and,getting up, ran about, the house. A church visitor called on Monday morning to see if the girl; had passed away, and to her surprise the ■‘invalid” rushed to the door, threw : her arms around her neck and embraced her. . Tj. 1 ... When a press representative, called at the house the patient, Miss. Dorothy. Kerin, was one ot a,merry,group.-'iShe \ is an exceedingly pretty girl, and although twenty-two. loots little inore than seventeen. ■ '■ Sho was wearing a dressing, gown,' “because,” as the mother ’ explained, “that-is! all she has at present.: .When she was last about the house she tyore ; short frocks, iyjd wo are now having clothes made'tor her.” ; , INCURABLE. Five years ago Miss Kerin was taken to a sanatorium for consumptives ‘.near , Beading, ■ and after a eitay of nine mouths sho was sent back. ...She was ' refused admittance to a hospital at Hampstead, and also to tKe ißrdmptpn ; Hospital for Consumptives, her condition being so bad, and, although sho was sent to a nursing home at St. Leonaids she was soon sent back., Ford a time she was in St. Peter’s Home for , : Incurables at Kilburn, and was taken home from there in an ambulance.. It was thought then that she would not live another week, but although: that was two years ago she has still lingered. . A fortnight ago she became ; V; blind and deaf, and, as above stated, • the doctor on February 17 said she. had only a fow hours to live.-.-w/ : l':; Yet on her cure she made her own ' v, bed, walked up and downstairs, with' ease, and, with the exception' of, pale, seemed as well as could be.. . 1 j Her account ,of what happened is y i extraordinary. “I suddenly saw a grcai light,” she says, "and-. T.heard a voice saying;

Dorothy, your sufferings are over. Get up. You can walk. •;

“Then two, hands clasped mine, touched my eyes in turn, and I was able to see my father and .mother. X have no naia whatever noA - ; in fact, I do not feel as if 1 have had a single day’s illness.” . , . . A few days previously, says the mother, the girl murmured during her sleep ; ‘‘Jesus will come and apeomplisb a great thing.” v .;~

MYSTIFIED DOCTORS.

The doctor, who for two, years has been attending the girl, was fteon aftej; ~ the occurrence. He is one .of the best •; known doctors and surgeons,in the dis- j trict. Ho is a justice of the peace., : ; “Whoa I heard that the girl had got I vip and was alpopt the house,” he.said, “I would not-believe it till I had been to see, for I left her on Saturday night, apparently dying.” . . Asked, “Did she yjally suffer from consumption and diabetes?” ho replied, “Oh, certainly; there’s no question whatever about that. Her pulse has been up to 200, aud.she has'been-los-ing half a tunt of blood at a ti l * o -” “Then wliat is your theory,” asked the reporter, “as to the cause of her present condition?” ■ “I . have no theory,;’ ho replied. “Had I read'of, it' I certainly should not have believed it. She is well, but -' how she got better I don’t know. ' The temporary blindness and deafness, he added, were probably hysterical. The amazing part was tpe apparent sudden cure of acute and consumption. .y %#§! Another doctor conversant with the case confessed himself equally piystifiod. “I have seen the girl,” he said, “and her condition is quite normal. She is pale, of course, but otherwise . perfectly well.” . . . A F.R.C.S. of wide experience, who has seen Miss Kerin since her recovery, savs that her case is the most unusual he has known in twenty-five years’ practice. . 1 , . “When I first examined her, he said “I should have said it was quite impossible for her to have done what she has proved she can do now—and_l shall watch her progress for the next month or so-with the closest interest. I have never jjinown a case like it.’