Mrs. Wakly, Blackened and Pulseless With Cholera and Given Up by the Physician, Has Her Pulse and Color Return by Morning After the Elders Persist in Anointing at St. Helier (1849)

Mrs. Wakly (a non-member) was suffering from severe cholera, with symptoms including blackening of the body, loss of pulse, and eyes set for death. A physician arrived and declared she would die, but the elders continued administering oil. By the next morning, her color and pulse returned, and she testified she was healed by the power of Jehovah.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

St. Heliers, Wednesday Morning, August 29.—Brother William Wakly came for me to go and see his wife (not in the church,) she had been seized with the cholera the night before. When I saw her, she was in a deplorable condition. Purging, vomiting, cramp, body quite black, could feel no pulse, and eyes as if set for death. I administered as usual, and the cramp became less violent immediately, and the other symptoms gradually decreased. I considered it wise to send for a doctor: he came, examined her, and said my good man your poor wife will die, you have been too late of applying. He went away, ordering some medicine; I told brother Wakly to continue rubbing her with oil. Called next morning, found her natural colour and heat returned, pulse well. She bore testimony that she was healed by the power of Jehovah. She continues to recover.