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former work as a stone mason. This continued for twenty 

 years. At the time of his cure he was under Dr. Dozens's 



re, as Ins eyes were then getting worse. He washed, and 

 s completely cured in the course of one day. Dr. Dozens 

 met him in the street and would not believe he was cured, 

 and tested him by writing with a pencil on a piece of paper 

 that lie had an incurable amaurosis of the right eye, and when 

 he read these words to the doctor, the latter was dum- 

 founded, for Dr. Dozens was a materialist, and dishelieved 

 in all things preternatural at that time. This case is also 

 vouched for by Dr. Vergez, of Bareges. 



" M. Lacassogne, now of 6, Rue de Chai des Varine, 

 Bordeaux, formerly of Toulouse, had a son who had for three 

 years been unable to swallow a morsel of solid food. Both 

 the doctors of Toulouse told me of this case, but Dr. Nogues 

 was his principal medical attendant. Dr. Nogues is still an 

 unbeliever, but he told me he felt bound in justice to declare 

 that his patient was a good obedient child of a sanguine tem- 

 perament, and not at all nervous or hysterical. When wasting 

 to the extreme from imperfect nutrition, he was instan- 

 taneously cured in the fountain, and has eaten freely solid food 

 ever since. His father was a Voltairean, and was converted 

 by this fact in his family. 



" Finally, Dr. Rogues, of Toulouse, told me that his own 

 daughter had recently had a most remarkable cure, and this 

 was also told me by Dr. Dozens, of Lourdes. Dr. Rogues is 

 short-sighted, his sons are short-sighted, and his father is 

 short-sighted. No wonder, then, that his daughter was also 

 short-sighted. It was a case of heredity — congenital short- 

 sightedness. The mother was exceedingly desirous as her 

 daughter grew up that she might be able to see like ordinary 

 people, and took her to Lourdes, when in an instant, she 

 became ordinarily long-sighted. On her return her father 

 would not believe till he had tested her himself by making 

 her read to him at distances which would have been quite 

 impossible at any previous period of her life. The next 

 morning he told me that being very anxious on the subject, 

 he called her as soon as possible to his window, and pointing 



