Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
THE LOUISIANA WONDER.
Marvellous Cures Effected By Child.
4 Seven Year-0ld Boy Who Can dag
nose a Case With All the Skill
of a Physician.

Donaldsonville. La, has developed
wonderful child, says the New Orleans
Picnayune. The little fellow is not vet Z
years old, but is said TO have accomplished
marvellous cures The skeptical say that
he simply goes through drill taught by
sharp adult, and that his cures are the re-
suit of the faith of his parents. On the
other side there are many believers in his
powers, and his home is constantly
thronged with afflicted persons, come to
be cured.
The boy will be years of age in No
yember, but Is small and understood for
his age. His name is Albert Simoneaux
tor, y or among the darkles THE Little
his eyes have sparkle of unusual bright
ness. He is quiet and seems not to per
ceive the attention which has been shown
him or, at least, not to have permitted it
to make him diviate from his childish
ways. 1t is said there is an impression of
cross or ehalice on his palate; but certain
it is that his method is to dampen his
hands with saliva and apply them to the
afflicted parts HIS family relate that they
first became informed of his peculiar gift
when he was two years and six months old,
his first patient being his father, whose
hands were covered with sores. The baby
asked permission to make them well.
He went through the same forms he
now uses. and the sores were permanently
cured. He then lived on bayou Lafourche,
four miles from Donaldsonville, and con-
tinued to treat his relatives and neigh
bors
About four months ago his powers be-
came generally known in the vicinity of
DOnaldsville, and since then he has treated
more patients than the regular physicians,
and has accomplished some really in
teresting cures. Among the most curious
of these are the following:
Mr. Charley Laudrey, overseerer at St.
Jacobs plantation was among the first
treated. He was afflicted in his leg. Drs
Degare and McGayard wished to ampu-
tate it, but hearing of the Little Doc
tor" Mr.. Landry went to him, and in five
days treatment the leg was perfect condi
ton.
In St. James parish Mr.. Lambert's lit
tie boy, or 9 years of age, could neither
walk nor crawl; after three or four treat
ments he walked.
Mrs Smith Tranciauth's little boy of
perhaps 9 years used two crutches. He
weat for the treatment in the morning
At noon he discarded one and by evening
walked easily walked with none.
An employee of Mr.. Hymel's in St James,
called 'Old Felix" had feet and hands
crippled and twisted but after few treat
ments he was perfectly cured.
Mr.. 10 Ruiz had sore eyes severely for
years, preventing him from working,
reading or writing After seven days days
treatment he went to work In the field
In DonaldsonvilIe the Italian who keeps
the fruit stand near the bridge was suffer
ing severely with rheumatic pains. On
Saturday he was treated, while begging
fos 'Misericorde, y and by Sunday he was
out of his shop rejoicing.
Two Chinese lab0rers were almost blind:
one is quite we'll and the other is better,
but still undergoing the treatment.
A coiored man in Donaldsonville whose
name can be easily learned has a child
who suffered three years with sore eyes.
For three months he was In the charity
hospotal, but ALI TO no purpose. One eye
is restored and the other slightly infamed
after few treatments
Felicien Born, PaincoUrtville, was par
alyzed in the arm and hand for many years.
He has now the use of both limbs.
Miss Hymel of st James was cured after
nine days of new neuralgia In head.
Mr.. Arthur Prejan of Lafource had
swelled knee. After nine days he was
cured.
Vilcint Berthelot of St John the Bap-
fist had been deaf twenty-five years. His
hearing was restored by this little wonder.
The little physician can diagnose and
prognose a case quite accurately. He can
generally tell whether patient can be
cured or whether he will die, and this
knowledge extends to animals as well.
He charges nothing for his Investigations,
but has, nevertheless, accumulated quite
fortune from the gifts of patients 1t is
not improbable that what good he has
done has resulted from faith, but neverthe-
less, he is creating a tremendous sensation
in his neighborhood and is well worth the
study of scientific men.