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during the laft twelve years, ¢¢ except in 
extraordinary cafes, in which either fuf- 
fering humanity, cr the demends of friend- 
fhip, have-infited on profiting by his 
counfels.”’. A cafe of the latter kind, he 
affures us, has juft brought him all the 
way trom Arles to Paris; and he bogatts, 
as a fact, that is not a little calculated to 
‘Convey a favourable idea cf his do& oe 
and fkill, “that he cured’ himflf wh 
ef @ young man, oi f the difeale for ik 
now (o happy as-to prefent an in- 
fallible réx feat to others ;*> and he does 
Hat foi get to make mention, §¢ that a phy- 
fician whe has_preferved fuch-an excelient 
ftate af health, until his period of lite, and 
is fill able to travel poft 200 leagues, 
cught to be entitled to no fmall degree af 
confidence,” 
Ruins this, ‘* his enemies 
have audacioufly maintained, he he has 
been fome time dead, and, like the fick 
jicn in-the fable, every afs ae to 
kick him; but his friends and all thofe 
whom he daily cures, are weil aware that 
he is alive; and, indeed, he has ioe 
too many of the fick Letieat th, and aftord- 
ed too much fuccour, not only in refpett 
to his gratuitous Lass, Rae's alfo in the 
fhape or fums, privaiely dikributed, from 
his purfe, ever to die in the elds tae 
of the pre‘ent age, or even of polterity !” 
{o 
The ciafs of nervous dijeaies confitute’ 
2 kind cf Proteus, but M. Pomme, and 
M. Pomme alone, knews how to bind 
him. A lady, in tefimony of the theu- 
{ands of viétims whom he has {natched 
from Janguor and from death, by one of 
thofe miracles fo trequent, and {o infailible, 
in his practice, as well as by way of prov- 
ing her own gratitude, bas cauled the fol- 
lowing quatrain to be engraved at the 
foot of his portrait : 
A votre beinfaiteur feuriez, vaporeux ; 
Ses écrits, fes conieils, font pour. vous des 
oracles; 
Moribonds, Cee ; paliffez, envieux ; 
Ses cures, fes fuccés font autant de mira- 
cles,’ 
Let any one but buy and perufe his two 
works, a and they will no longer doubt of 
the numerous miracles eperated, by means 
of his ‘* Hippecratic methcd.” Is it ne- 
ceflarv to ciie the blind whom he has re- 
tored to fight? Let fuch as are dubious 
on this fabje but appry to Madame de 
Bezons, and Madame Bellaguia; the one 
an inhabitant of Paris, the other of Lyons 
—both of them blind in confequence ae a 
difeale in the optic nerve, and to whem he 
Retrofpec? of French Literature.—Mijceilanies. 
reftored fight folely by the effect of chicken 
broth, and a bath! Does any one with to 
know the paralytic perfons whom he has 
enabled to walk? He will refer him to 
Maeademoifelle de Reftain de Tournan, 
Mademorfelle Pecaud d’Arbois, and 
Mademoifeile Monichovel de Bourg Ar- 
gental, three paralytic females, who walk, 
not indeed at his bidding, but by means 
of bathing, veal broth, ant the juice ex- 
tracted from chickens ! 
Can any body doubt -but that be has 
rade ihe dumb to fpeak ? Witnefs Made- 
moifelle Authman, who remained mute 
during two whole years. Can it be de- 
nied that he hes even raifed the dead >? 
Lazarus Vidal, a beggar, belonging to 
Baume in thé Comat was found extend- 
ed under a tree, during the dog days, and 
fuppofed ta be lifelefs. On being carried 
to an hofpital, his winding fheet was put 
On, and 
bury him, when Dr. Pomme happened to 
enter, he ordeved the corpfe to be pluiuged: 
into a cold bath, in which ice had been 
previoutly melted, and this fame Lazarus 
ws immediately refufcitated ! 
Dees the reader with for another mi- 
racle, direcily contrary indeed ro that re- 
corded in Scripture, but which occurred 
in the fame element, and mut be allowed 
to he no lefs aitonifhing ? ‘* Mademoifele 
de Cligny, aged fifty, had’a continual and 
convulfive Hempb line in her legs, which 
obliged her to keep her bed\ during the 
face of twenty-five years. Her phy fici isn 
(M. Pomme) immediately ordered her to 
be placed in a bath, but her body had be- 
come fo light and withered, and the internal 
air fo rarified, that the the body immedi- 
ately floated, his phenomenon continued 
during two whole months, at the end of 
which period, the fick ade funk in the 
water, after which fhe -arofe, walked 
about, and w:s cured!’ 
It feems that tiis old man was, at cne 
period, tne objet of Voliaire’s fatire, for 
he pretended to. confult him abeut the 
fituation of a Madame Racle, whom he 
compared to the woman of jJerufalem, who 
vas affected by an ifflue of blocd. The 
following is a copy of the note written by 
the } shilofo phe: of Ferney :—* Monfeur,. 
Quoique je fois difficile, a perfuader, je 
crois a votre evangile ; mais vous rencon- 
trerez fur votre chemi in des Scribes et des 
Phariliees qui contefteront vos miracles ; 3 
car votre royaume n’eft pas de monde.” 
Sir, Although I am hard i belief, yet I 
put faih in your docirine; but you will | 
nieet with many Scribes ee Pharifees, 
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