The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . s?within the first fifty years of thepilgrimage is undoul)tedly consid-erably less than the actual Bureau des Constatationsstandsnear the shrine, and there are re-corded and checked the certificatesof maladies, and also the certificatesof cure; it is free to all physicians,whatever their nationality or re-ligious belief. Conse([uently, on anaverage, from two to three hundredphysicians annually visit this mar-vellous clinic. .Vs to th
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . s?within the first fifty years of thepilgrimage is undoul)tedly consid-erably less than the actual Bureau des Constatationsstandsnear the shrine, and there are re-corded and checked the certificatesof maladies, and also the certificatesof cure; it is free to all physicians,whatever their nationality or re-ligious belief. Conse([uently, on anaverage, from two to three hundredphysicians annually visit this mar-vellous clinic. .Vs to the nature ofthe diseases which are cured, ner-\ous disorders so frequently men-tioned, do not furnish even the fourteenth part ofthe whole; 27S have been counted, out of ?! total of3962. The present writer has published the numberof cases of each disease or infirmity, among themtuberculosis, tumours, sores, cancers, deafness, blind-ness, etc. The Aimales des Sciences Physiques,a sceptical review whose chief editor is Doctor , Professor at the Medical Faculty of Paris, saidin the course of a long article, apropos of this faith- FRANCE. Bernadette Sdubihdvx. who saw the OF THE Blessed \irgin AT Lourdes ful study: On reading it, unprejudiced minds cannotbut be convinced that the facts stated are (ause.—There exists no natural cause capableof producing the cures witnessed at Lourdes which dis-pense an unbiassed mind from tracing them back to theparticular agency of God. Those who refused to belie\ein a miraculous intervention sought at first the scien-tific interpretation ofthe occurrences inthe chemical compo-sition of the waterof the Grotto. Butit was then declaredby an eminent chem-ist officially ap-pointed to make theanalysis, and hisstatement has sincebeen corroborated,that the water con-tains no curativeproperties of a nat-ural character. Thenthe incredulous said,perhaps it operatesthrough its temper-ature, or the resultsobtained at Ijourdes
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