Thomas Ford's Miraculous Healing from a Head Hemorrhage

Thomas Ford suffered from a malady involving severe bleeding in the head that felt like a ruptured blood vessel. After two or three hours of intense bleeding and pain, his wife was unable to stop it with cold cloths. He sent for Elder Blackburn to come from Morpeth, three or four miles away. Elder Blackburn administered to him, and the bleeding ceased and pain left immediately.

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

I was attacked with a peculiar malady; and after some days, I took a bleeding in the head, resembling the breaking of a blood-vessel. The blood continued to flow from me almost without intermission for two or three hours, so that I began to have doubts on my mind as to whether I was not going to bleed to death. The pain also that accompanied it was very great. My wife did all in her power for me, and succeeded to some extent in stopping the blood by the application of cold wet cloths to my head; but the awful pain still continued. I had in the meantime sent to Morpeth, a distance of three or four miles, for Elder Blackburn to come to me with all speed. He came and administered to me, and in a short time the blood ceased flowing, the pain left me, and has not since returned.