10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONVULSIONIST»
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convulsionist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics
It consisted in placing on the convulsionist, who was stretched on the ground, a
board of sufficient size to cover her entirely ; and as many men as could stand
upon it mounted on the board. The convulsionist sustained them all." * Montgdron
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form. It consisted in placing on the convulsionist, who was stretched on the
ground, a board of sufficient size to cover her entirely ; and as many men as
could stand upon it mounted on the board. The convulsionist sustained them all.
3
The Miracles at the tomb of B. François de Paris
A convulsionist of the first order was holding a very beautiful discourse in an
unknown language. At the same time she assumed a most remarkable attitude.
The body was bent backward to form an arch, supported on the head and the
heels.
0 form. It consisted in placing on the convulsionist, who was stretched on the
ground, a board of suflicient size to cover her entirely; and as many men~as
could stand upon it mounted on the board. The convulsionist sustained them all.
5
The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance
Montgeron further says, that " the greatest enemies of these miraculous succours
admitted the fact that such terrible blows, far from producing the slightest wound
or causing the convulsionist the least suffering, actually cured the pains of which
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The convulsionist recited a De Profundis in French, but before reciting it she
asked that they put her head down and her feet up in the air. After having recited
with great demonstration of piety this prayer she wanted them to help her throw a
...
7
Medical Record: A ... Journal of Medicine and Surgery
The convulsionist recited a De Profundis in French, but before reciting it she
asked that they put her head down and her feet up in the air. After having recited
with great demonstration of piety this prayer she Wanted them to help her throw a
...
George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, 1908
8
The Illustrated London magazine, ed. by R.B. Knowles
He admits, however, that it is extremely difficult to distinguish between what ought
to be received as divinely revealed and what ought to be rejected as originating
in the convulsionist's own mind ; nor does he give any rule by which this may be ...
Richard Brinsley Knowles, 1867
9
The New monthly belle assemblée
And he admits that false predictions were not infrequent, and that false
interpretations of visions touching the future were of common occurrence. He
says : " It is sometimes revealed to a convulsionist, for example, that there is to
happen to ...
10
Evolution, The Stone Book, And, The Mosaic Record of Creation
CONVULSIONIST THEORY. 65 — long after other geologists had changed —
used to say, "I am a Convulsionist still;" and Dr. Whewell, the great Master of
Trinity College, was a Convulsionist till his death. The next change of theory was
to that ...
