THE SYDNEY HEALING

Kumara Times, Issue 1479, 24 June 1881, Page 2

THE SYDNEY HEALING

MEDIUM. The Duke of Manchester, accompanied by Mr Loftus and Mr W. Laidley, recently paid a visit to the rooms of Mr Milner Stephen, the Sydney healing medium, and sat there an hour watching him heal some ladies and gentlemen of sundry diseases of long standing, and amongst others deafness. According to the Sydney Evening News, his Grace thereupon asked Mr Stephen if he thought he could cure him of deafness in one ear of 12 years’ standing, which the Duke

said had been caused by a fall whild hunting, which had also affected ong eye to suCh an extertt that he was obliged to use an eyfe-glasS to bring it to the saiiie strength of vision as the other. Mr Stephen made the reply that, as the Duke had witnessed twd persona receive their hearing, who; by a clirious coincidence, had both becri deaf the same miraber of years as his Grace, via., 13 years, he might reasonably expect the same successful result. The Duke accordingly sub; roitted himself to be “ breathed upon,’ 5 and in about three minutes he put his watch to his ear, and, with evident delight, exclaimed that “he had not heard it “tick ’’ before for 13—aye 30-years; In another minute he took tip a newspaper, to try his eye, saying that “ he could see much clearer with it." The Dube pressed Mr Stephen to accept U fee, which he declined; oil the ground that his tirade had CditlC ail a visitor, and he must allow himself to be treated as Such. The Duke had the opportunity of witnessing the phenomenon of clairvoyance—a little girl of 13 or li having examined (with closed eyes) two or three patients, about whose cases the doctors had differed, and the girl’s diagnosis appeared tostateeach patients sensations.