John Albiston Heals a Sister of St. Anthony's Fire and a Near-Fatal Contortion of the Bowels (1848)

An unnamed sister suffered from St. Anthony's fire (disfiguring facial inflammation) and a white swelling on her knee, both of which were healed after anointing by John Albiston. Later, she was near death from a contortion of the bowels, but was healed instantly after anointing and returned to work within an hour.

In the same letter, Albiston recounts additional miraculous healings attributed to his walking stick, which he had left at the home of a brother in Old Swinford. A young man, who worked as a nailor and had sustained a deep hand wound from a piece of iron, rubbed his hand against the stick and reported that the wound closed immediately. Both his parents were witnesses to this. The parents, who also had wounds, subsequently used the stick and were healed in the same house. Albiston also notes that while visiting the Cheltenham Branch, he told this story of the stick to a sister disfigured by two scurvy lumps on her lip.