Lourdes
Subtitle: A History Of Its Apparitions And Cures
Publisher: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner
Published: 1908
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Preface v; title: PART I.— THE APPARITIONS; title: CHAP.; title: I. History of the Apparitions 3; title: The Source 16; title: " I am the Immaculate Conception " .20; title: II. Reality of the Apparitions 23; title: The Sincerity of Bernadette 24; title: The Visions of Bernadette and Hallucinations 32; title: The Temperament and the Piety of Bernadette were not conducive to Hallucinations . . 33; title: Before the Vision 37; title: During the Vision 41; title: After the Vision 45; title: Necessary Conclusions 51; title: III. The Apparitions and the Church .... 56; title: Mgr. Laurence and the Episcopal Commission 60; title: The Sovereign Pontiffs 65; title: Lourdes, and the Contemporary Religious Movement 67; title: The World's Pilgrimage 69; title: Pilgrimages and the Human Heart ... 71; title: A School of Religion, Charity, and Faith 73; title: PART II.— THE CURES; title: I. The Facts 81; title: The Verification of Facts 84; title: Number and Variety of Cures .... 90; title: A few Examples 93; title: Interpretation of the Facts .114; title: Quality of and contact with Water .115; title: I. The Facts (continued)—; title: Insufficiency of Suggestion .118; title: Disputed Facts 120; title: Suggestion and Nervous Diseases . .121; title: Suggestion and Organic Diseases . .129; title: Two Methods of Cure 131; title: No Suggestion at Lourdes 142; title: Unknown Forces 150; title: Miracles and Medical Men 158; title: II. Some Typical Cases . . 164; title: 1. Pierre de Rudder 164; title: 2. A Novelist on Miracles 185; title: Clementine Trouve 186; title: Madame Gordet 201; title: Marie Lemarchand 221; title: Marie Lebranchu 233; title: 3. Madame Rouchel . . . 245; title: 4. Gabriel Garoam 263; title: Conclusion 284; title: APPENDIX; title: I. A Calumny 289; title: II. Bernadette and Doctor Voisin 290; title: III. Doctors at Lourdes 292; title: IV. Statistics of Cures 293; title: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; title: The Statue at the Grotto .... Frontispiece; title: Map To face page 4; title: Bernadette Soubirous „ 34; title: Pierre de Rudder after his Cure ... „ 172; title: The Bones of P. de R/s Legs after Autopsy . „ 184; title: Clementine TrouvE and Madame Gordet . „ 201; title: Marie Lemarchand and Marie Lebranchu „ 232; title: Madame Rouchel after her Cure ... „ 246; title: Madame Rouchel's soiled Prayer Book „ 260; title: Gabriel Garoam „ 278