Healing of two Armenian Church members of trachoma

“When the emigration doctor had rejected them twice, I asked him if they could be cured by remaining there and having their eyes doctored. He replied that it would require four or five months to effect a cure on the woman's eyes, and there was no hope for the old man, who had the disease in a very bad form, and 'he was too old to be cured.' In about one week after the doctor had made this statement, they requested me to administer to them. I told them they must exercise faith and prepare themselves through humility and prayer, and then I would do so. The third day after that we held a protracted prayer meeting with them and then anointed their eyes and prayed for them in the usual way of administration. We arose and went to an eye specialist, who pronounced them both 'completely cured from bad cases of trachoma,' and gave them each a certificate to that effect. I took the certificates to the emigration doctor, but he remembered the cases and would not believe that they were cured. But after request, he consented to examine them once more. He did so next morning, and on looking into their eyes, he acknowledged that they were cured and said, 'They have not a bit of contagious disease about them.' They were afterwards accepted by the steamship company and taken to Canada and were examined there by the Canadian doctor, and afterwards by the United States doctor, and were pronounced 'clean' and 'OK,' and were allowed to proceed on their way.”

— J. Wilford Booth, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star