Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ...medicine, which was distributed among the sufferers, as most costly and invaluable. The effect was almost miraculous. 'Such as had not moved their limbs for a month before, were seen walking in the streets, sound, straight, and whole. Many, who declared that they had been rendered worse by all former remedies, recovered in a few days, to their inexpressible joy.'.. The remarkable cures celebrated as miracles in the Romish Church, by touching bones, relics, &c., all belong to the same class; and are well worth the student's attention, as illustrating the power of imagination over the body, and as showing the facility with which mankind may be duped by the crafty and designing. "Murat, king of Naples, received a letter from his wife, while absent in Bonaparte's celebrated Russian campaign, detailing some proceedings of his government, which he thought encroached upon the royal prerogative; and so great was the effect of jealousy, that before he had finished the letter, his whole skin became completely jaundiced.... A boy was once let down the side of a very high precipice in a basket, to rob an eagle's nest: while suspended some hundreds of feet above the rocky base, he was attacked by the eagle; and on cutting at the bird with the sword which he carried with him, he struck the rope by which he was suspended, and cut it nearly off; on drawing him up, his hair was found changed to white.... A widow in Paris, on learning that her daughter with her two children had thrown herself from an upper story of the house and was dashed in pieces, became in one night as black as a negro.... A Jew in France came in the dark, over a dangerous passage on a plank that lay over a brook, without harm; the next day, on viewing the perilous situation...
