The sight of his right eye was altogether destroyed, and he was even threatened with the loss of the left one.

Well, one day he sent his daughter to fetch a bottleful of the muddy water of the source, which then scarcely bubbled up to the surface.

He washed his eye with this muddy liquid, and prayed fervently.

And, all at once, he raised a cry, for he could see, monsieur, see as well as you and I.The doctor who was attending him drew up a detailed narrative of the case, and there cannot be the slightest doubt about its truth." "It is marvellous," murmured M.de Guersaint in his delight.
"Would you like another example, monsieur?
I can give you a famous one, that of Francois Macary, the carpenter of Lavaur.

During eighteen years he had suffered from a deep varicose ulcer, with considerable enlargement of the tissues in the mesial part of the left leg.