Elizabeth Bounsell's Daughter, Declared Incurable of Scrofula and Discharged From the Infirmary, Is Healed When the Four-Year Discharge Ceases After Anointing at Bristol (1849)
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Elizabeth Bounsell's daughter, Elizabeth, suffered from a discharge in her neck caused by scrofula for four years. She was declared incurable by physicians and discharged from an infirmary. After Elder John Hakwell anointed and laid hands on her, the discharge ceased, and she was healed and active within one week.
In Their Own Words
“On the 8th of May, 1849, Elizabeth Bounsell brought her daughter Elizabeth down to be anointed with oil, as the child had a discharge in her neck—a decided case of scrofula. For four years the child was pronounced incurable by the most eminent of the faculty, and had been discharged from the infirmary as a hopeless case of ulceration. A few days before she was brought to us, Elder John Hakwell anointed her with oil, and laid his hands upon her, and the discharge ceased, and in a week it was healed up, and the child was out skipping about. — Millennial Star 11:18”
Sources & References
The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 15 September 1849 (Vol. 11, No. 18). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1849-09-15_11_18 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)
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