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The following tal)le will [)lace this beyond doubt, and enable any one, so disposed to 

 verity our assertions : 



Now, locomotor ataxia is pronounced incurable by the whole medical world. It is no 

 nervous disorder over which will, or imagination, can have any eifect. A change in the 

 essential elements of the system takes place in the part affected ; and hitherto science has 

 not discovered any remedy. We have, then, in Pierre Delanoy a man evidently afflicted 

 with an incurable malady which is rapidly nearing its final stage. Mark now the sequel. 

 This man, whose life had been disordered, began to amend it from the year 1883. When the 

 inutility of medical treatment had become apparent some of his friends advised him to go on 

 a pilgi'image to Lourdes where many wonderful cures were said to be effected. In reference 

 to this Delanoy said : " I should like it very much ; but aa I attribute my affliction to my 

 sins, I do not think myself worthy to go to Lourdes, nor worthy of being cured there." He 

 adds, however, that he increased his devotion and pious practices, and became more patient 

 under his afflictions. Finally he was induced in August of 1889 to ask to be taken to 

 Lourdes with the national pilgrimage. He arrived at that place at nine o'clock on the 

 morning of the 19th August, and had to be helped from the car to the grotto. There he 

 assisted at Mass and received Holy Communion, and prayed, as he says, that he " might 

 always remain a good christian." Later on he was present at Benediction of the Most Holy 

 Sacrament, and whilst the priest who was carrying it processionally, after the benediction, 

 approached him, Delanoy says : " I bent to the earth and kissed it, and cried aloud : ' Our 

 Lady of Lourdes cure me, if you please and if you judge it well ; " and he adds : " I felt the 

 sensation of an extraordinary interior force which compelled me despite myself to rise, to 



