Faith-healing and Christian Science / by Alice Feilding.

  • Feilding, Alice.
Date:
1899
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    military chief, Greatrakes came over to England and practised in Worcester and in London with more than fair success. He was, however, assailed by all sorts of calumnies, and published therefore in vindication and self-defence an account of all whom he had cured, with the names and addresses of his patients before leaving England. ‘ Besides this, the most dis- tinguished men, physicians and others, attested from personal knowledge the reality of his cures.’1 Greatrakes died, at the age of fifty- four, in 1683. Some Continental healers of renown who lived in the end of last century and in the first half of this now claim notice. Joseph Gassner, a Roman Catholic priest, was born in Swabia in the year 1727. His faith-healing works began when he was priest at Klosterle in Bohemia in 1758. Great multitudes were attracted to the quiet little town by his reputation, the sick coming in such numbers from Swabia, Tyrol, and even 1 History of the Supernatural, Will. Howitt, vol. ii. p. 152. I am chiefly indebted for this account of Greatrakes to W. Howitt’s History, and to the article on this healer in the Dictionary of National Biography.