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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61891	The miraculous conformist, or, An account of severall marvailous cures performed by the stroking of the hands of Mr. Valentine Greatarick with a physicall discourse thereupon ... / by Henry Stubbe.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1666 (1666)	Wing S6062; ESTC R28187	21,038	52

there were in it but there issued little or nothing from them he took it and crushed it extreamly bringing out much blood and indigested matter in cores as big as nutmegs and then stroaking it all the paine and flux of blood ceased but the weaknesse being habituall to the part was not removed at that instant I saw a Woman taken with a violent fit of the Falling-sicknesse he came to her and causing her breast to be opened and chafed her Stomack with his Hand a while presently her paroxysme abated and he asked her whither the paine was gone she pointed to her Throat and indeed she seemed as if she were in danger of being strangled there he Stroked her Throat lightly and asked where her paine was she poynted to her Breast he stroked that and then she made signes that it was returned to her Throat whereupon he Stroked with his hand upwards her Breast and Neck and she began to belch winde with such a vehemency that is scarce to be imagined and withall st●eyning as it were to vomit she brought up some crude phlegme with an infinity of winde and then rose up well to her thoughts These were the principall things I saw him do he being then upon his departure for London but I received from himself and others sufficient accounts that he had Cured almost all manner of distempers even Quartane-Agues and Feavours and whosoever shall seriously consider the things he doth performe will not finde in reason any thing to stop his Credulity I might now end this Letter and leave You those other worthy members of the Royal Society to determine concerning these Effects which I apprehend miraculous but since the Freedome You allow me with you permits me to speak any thing I shall without derogating from the power of God and with all due Veneration to so extraordinary Characters of his Goodness propose unto You some Thoughts which occurred to me hereupon as confused as they are they may administer to others some occasion of greater Enquiries I considered that there was no manner of Fraud in the performances that his Hands had no manner of Medicaments upon them for I smell'd to them and handled them and saw them wash'd more then once after some Cures and before others nor was his Stroaking so violent as that much could be attributed to the Friction I observed that he used no manner of Charmes or unlawful words sometimes he Ejaculated a short Prayer before he cured any and alwayes after he had done he bad them give God the Praise I did not remember that ever the Devil did cure any Diseases no not when his Glory was concerned in it as in the Magicians of Pharaoh upon whom the Boyl was Exod 9 11. wherein you cannot object any particular interposition of God any more then in the other accidents whereby the Magicians were suffered to try their skill against Moses I knew the Devil went about seeking whom he might destroy that he plagued Iob with Botches but where are the Examples of his Cures or when did he ever do any Good and ascribe the glory unto God I reflected upon the Performances of King Pyrrhus who cured Diseases with his Finger so did Vespasian cure two by touching them as Tacitus and Suetonius avow so the Kings of England and some years after them the Kings of France have not been doubted generally to cure the Kings-Evill Queen Elizabeth did for some time discontinue the Touching for the Kings Evil doubting either the Success or Lawfulnesse of that way of Curing But She soon quitted that Fitt of Puritanisme when the Papists defamed her as if God had withdrawn from her the gift of Healing in that manner because she had withdrawn her self from the Roman Church There are some who think that God hath bestowed upon all Kings some such Character or Gift to shew how particularly he is concerned for them and differenceth them from other men but they know it not From these cogitations I descended to the Alexicaci Salutatores or Be●sedevios of which the Roman Casuists and Physicians speak much I must referre you to Delrius for your farther information for my memory fayles me so as I cannot give you an account of them so full as I would They cure by Anointing with their Spittle by breathing and stroking of the patient Rodericus à Castro medic polit l. 4. c. 3. allowes of the verity of their Cures by replying nothing to this objection in favour of them In confirmationem adducunt experientiam varia curationum genera mirè frequentia praxin quotidianam militum qui solo afflatu osculo aut nudi lintei applicatione sanant etiam atrocissima vulnera qui omnes dono sanitatis in variis morbis se praeditos gloriantur In Turky also and Afrique they have persons of the like qualifications which they boast to have received from the favour of their Prophet Mahomet But undoubtedly God hath permitted all Religions though not the Protestants till now to have their reall Miracles that men may learne to trye Miracles by the Truth and not the Truth by Miracles I considered likewise the Nephritick and Eagle-stones and several other Amulets and Periapta whose operation is certain and undeniable yet could not all these Considerations instruct me further in the Explanation of these Miraculous Accidents then to conclude That God had bestowed upon Mr. Greatarick a peculiar Temperament or composed his Body of some particular Ferments the Effluvia whereof being introduced sometimes by a light sometimes by a violent Friction should restore the Temperament of the Debilitated parts re-invigorate the Bloud and dissipate all heterogeneous Ferments out of the Bodies of the Diseased by the Eyes Nose Mouth Hand and Feet I place the gift of healing in the temperament or composure of his body because I see it necessary that he Touch them or otherwise rubbe their Eyes with his Spittle Besides the right Honourable the Lord Conway observed one Morning as he came into his Lordships Chamber a smell strangely pleasant as if it had been of sundry Flowers and demanding of his man what sweet water he had brought into the Roome he answered None whereupon his Lordship smelled on the hand of M r. Greatarick and found the fragrancy to issue thence and examining his Bosome he found the like scent there also But this is observable but at some times for I could observe no such scent in his Hands Deane Rust observed his Urine to smell like Violets though he had eat nothing that might give it that scent S r Amos Meredith who had been his Bedfellow said that in the Night he had observed the like agreeablenesse of smell in M ● Greataricks Body at some houres I place it in the temperament of his Body because I have the precedent of Ancient Miracles and Moderne ones wrought by the efficacy of a Corporal Touch. Besides it is evident how several Diseases are contracted that way and why may not some benigne

parts which modesty would not permit her to let M r Greatarick stroke she went away as if she had been cured but is since sick of an intolerable pain there Such consequents are usuall when the Disease is not stroked out HAving been lately requested by the Learned D r Henry Stubbe of Stratford upon Avon to set down in VVriting some few of those very many observables I had seen in the Cures or Attempts of M r Valentine Greatarick since his coming into England in order to a designe wherewith that knowing Physitian intends shortly to oblige the Curious I could no wayes refuse his so just demand VVherefore wholly quitting all Philosophical Researches and disquisitions to the framers of new Hypotheses or at least to those who are better verst in such as are already extant I shall barely relate matter of Fact in four or five of the most eminent instances whereof I have been an Eye-witness Thursday Feb 1. 1. M ris Reynolds a Shop-keepers Wife of Alcester in the County of Warwick having been ever since Hay-harvest disabled in her Arms and Hands in so much as she was not able to use them or even to undresse her self was that day and twice afterward touched by M r Greataricks she found them considerably strengthned at the first time and much more after so that she could put them behind her Back combe her Head and use her Needle and thus she continues to this day The same day in the Town-Hall I saw two Women delivered of the shaking Palsy which was driven out at their Toes ends Tuesday Feb 13. 2. I accompanied M r Greatericks to the Citty of VVorcester and lodged with him in the House of M r VVithie an Attorney We had not been there full an houre when beside a multitude of infirme people there came to him one M ris Bickeridge dwelling within half a mile of Tewxbury bringing with her four of her Children two Sons and as many Daughters The elder of the youths is now two and twenty years of Age and about two years since was strucken with the dead Palsy which in continuance of time hath so disabled him that he can neither stand or feed himself I saw little or no effect upon M r Greataricks stroking him either that night or the next day The other three the remaining Son and two Daughters by the report of their Mother fell all down in the street as they were coming along with her to M r Greataricks These had all been troubled with Convulsions or fits of the Falling-sicknesse for about four years The Youth upon the application and short chafing of M r Greataricks Hand was restored I saw him well the next day in the Citty-Hall and the next after heard that he continued so and was seen playing in the Street Susan one of the Girles as her Mother told me was so thickly pursued with her Fits that of a Twelve month before she had not spoken above once in a Month And Margaret the other Girle had lay'n utterly Speechlesse for three Weeks last past Both these after somewhat a longer chafing were soon freed and restored to Speech and ability of walking up and down the Room but they both relaps't into their Fits and became again Speechlesse Margaret lay in that condition for twelve hours that she could neither speak or stand On Wednesday morning Feb. 14. her Mother brought her into the City-Hall and within ten Minutes She was restored to Speech but her Pain held Mr. Greataricks Hand in play neer an Hour after Being thus returned to her speech she was willed by Mr. Greatarick to move her Hand upon the place and point wheresoever her pain removed he being presently ready to apply his Hand to the part affected she did so and forthwith it avoided his Touch skipping exceeding swiftly from one part of the Head to the other as from the Forehead to the Crown from thence to the Pole then to the Right Side now to the Left into the Neck Shoulder Arm Hand th' opposite Hand to the Thigh calf of the Leg Anckle Foot and from thence as quick as thought to the head again where shifting according to the former or like Order he was sometimes fain to apply both his Hands but then many times the Pain got between the interstices of his Fingers from whence upon a fresh Application it flew to other parts as before and alwaies with such incredible speed that it much amazed the By-standers and Mr. Greataricks would often affirm that in his Opinion it was some Evill Spirit gotten into the Body of the Child At length having vexed it from part to part for as I guess the best part of an Hour it passed out at her Toes Thursday Feb. 15. The next day the other Sister Susan was brought in speechless She was restored to her Speech and freed from her paines in like manner but with far lesse adoe and in much shorter time We heard no more of them after On VVednesday Feb. 14. in the City-Hall at Worcester M ris VValling a School-Mistress dwelling upon Mavern Hill fell into a most horrid Fit of the Falling-Sickness her Motions were exceedingly vehement and Convulsive with so much violence and impetuosity as if her Limbs had then been rending in sunder I never saw any Hysterical Paroxysm half so dreadful all her Joynts seemed to be crampt and sometimes so distorted as if She had been upon the Wrack M r Greataricks by stroaking her Brest for that purpose first bared soon restored her to such Sensibility as that she was able to speak and direct him to the place whither her Pain shifted which it often did with inexpressible Agility from one extreme part of her Body to another And it was very observable that whither soever her Pain retired that part was as it were crampt and seem'd by her Motions Cryings out and Shrieks to be affected with intolerable Dolour sometimes it was in her Throat and then it nigh choaked her and there ensued excessive Belchings as I have also often observed in sundry Asthmatical and Pthisical Persons stroaked by him And in this case was he fain to leave her for that time Night growing on and an infinity of diseased people pressing upon him for help The next day being Thursday Feb. 15 Whilst we were at Mr. VVithies sitting at Dinner word was brought to Mr. Greataricks that one was fallen in his Chamber and as at other times he was wont to quit all things to afford relief in this sad Distemper He immediately and I with him left the Table we were no sooner gotten into the Chamber but we found it was the same M ris VValling fallen into a new Fit which was now rather more vehement then that of the day before it now sometimes affected her in the Eyes and sometimes in her Nose and that with such anguish as she seem'd oftimes ready to tear it off Upon the removal of her Pains she often gave such Shrieks as if her Heart had been