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The Linacre QuarterlyVolume 25 | Number 1 Article 172-1-1958Book Review of Modern Miraculous Cures, byFrancois Leuret and Henri Bon (Translated by A.T.MacQueen and Rev. John C. BarryNorman M. MacNeillFollow this and additional works at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnqPart of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, and the Medicine and Health SciencesCommonsRecommended CitationMacNeill, Norman M. (1958) "Book Review of Modern Miraculous Cures, by Francois Leuret and Henri Bon (Translated by A.T.MacQueen and Rev. John C. Barry," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 25 : No. 1 , Article 17.Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol25/iss1/17Francois Leuret, M.D. and Henri Bon, M.D. (Translated by A. T. MacQueen, M.D. and Rev. John C. Barry)Review by NORMAN M. MACNEILL, M. D. This seems unquestionably the best medical treatise on miraculous cures written upto the present time; and, if most of the cases reported are from the Lourdes' Shr 1e, it is because Doctor Leurent is former president of the Medical Bureau and Scient.,/lc Studies at Lourdes. His co-author, Doctor Henri Bon, is a noted contributor to Frerchmedical literature. By happy chance, this book, as weJl as the outstanding one on Lourdes by rhelate Ruth Cranston, a non-Catholic, appears on the eve of the centenary celebrat:on of the Lourdes' apparitions in 1858, a phenomenon which more and more, as time passes, seems to have been the provid.ential antidote to the misapplication by material­ist and determinist nineteenth century biologists of the. evolutionary theory of man, sparked by Darwin's ··origin of Species,·· published one year later (1859). The translators have succeeded admirably in avoiding the ··bugs" and transla­tional nuances which so often mar medical translation into English. The many case histories of miraculous cures are weJJ and technically described. Chapter X, regardin,1 the etiology and physiology of miraculous cures, deals at lenr;th with the method by which the diagnosis of a miraculous cure is arrived at, both, from the scienti/lc as weJl as the theological point of view; as an earlier chapter explains, the Church's procedure in the investigation of the cures. Examples are also given of false cures. The book presents a fascinating technical study of its subject and suggests that "The examination of great - we may say, classical - miracles has helped to showthat the study of miracles demands that we raise and broaden our views beyond theirpresent anthrop·omorphic limits and ·rise above the level of the sort of laws laid down dogmaticaJly by the nineteenth century scientists, which are  now out of date." Physicians, medical students and nurses will enjoy this book and pro.fit by it. It should find a place in every medical and college library. Its factual descriptions of occurring phenomena, which are as often misrepresented • as they ar.e misunderstood make it an invaluable adjunct to our necessarily im­perfect understanding ·of. the miraculous. Modern Miraculous- Cures Published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy215 pages $3.50 32 LINACRE QUARTERLY MINUTES OF THE DEt .. :vIBER MEETING 1957 THE FEDE�ATION OF CA'' ·iiJLIC PHYSICIAN;· <rUILDS The December meeting of th, F�xecutive Board of Th. federati?nof Catholic Physicians' Guilds "' , .' /'eld in PhiJadelphia, Permsylvama, December 7-8, 1957, at the ! •,,,.1phia Hotel. The following werepresent: Officers W. J. Egan, M.D. - Pi e,ident . E. J. Murphy, M.D. - hr.•;t Vice�Pres1de�t J. E. Holoubek, M.D. - · .�0:cond ,V1ce-.Pres1de1:1t C. P. Cunnningham, M.[>. - Third Vice-President J. J. Graff, M.D. - Secretary Others Rt Rev Msgr. D. A McGowan - Moderator Re�. J. J. Flanagan, S.J. -· Editor, THE. LINACRE QUARTERLY · D. A. Mulvihill, M.D. ·- Honorary President J. J. Toland, Jr., M.D. ---- Past President Wm. P. Chester, M.O. - Past . President M F. Yeip, M.D. - Past President M�. M. R. Kneifl _ Executive Secretary Miss Jean Read_ Assistant Secretary Affiliated Guilds represented Alice Holoubek, M.D. - Shreveport, La. Charles Crawley, M.D. - Brooklyn, N. Y. · · Rev. James H. Fitzpatrick - Brooklyn and Queens, N. Y. G Griffin, M.D. - Brooklyn, N. Y. J ) Coletti M.D. _ Rockville Centre, N. Y. D. J. Bradl�y. M.D. _ RockviJle Centre, N. Y.G P · M D - Brooklyn, N. Y. eo. nee, . · · Ph·J d l hia Pa. (Rene Goupil) N.MM.GMacbneil), MM.DD. -PhOad:iphi�. Pa. (St. Francis of Assisi) J am esc1a, · · -(S F · f A · ·) T J. E 1· h M.D. - Philadelphia. Pn. t. ran�1s o s�1�1 R�v: N�tc�rran - Philadelphia, Pa. (St. Francis of Ass1s1) Rev. Michael Walsh, S.J. - Boston,. Mass. Robt. Eiben, M.D. - Cleveland, 01cy l d Oh· Very Rev. Mss:,r. F. W. Carney - eve an ' IO J. J. Muccigrosso, M.D. - Westchester, N. Y. J. I. Porter, M.D. - Stamford, Conn: Oki F E Darrow, M.D. _ Oklahoma City, a. F�ed· M. Taylor, M.D. _ Houston, Texas E. J. Murphy, M. D. - Bronx, N. Y .. Wm. P. Chester, M.D. - Detr01t, Mich. D. A. Mulvihill, M.D. - New York. N. Y. J J Graff, M.D. - Wilmington, Del. d 111 C. p' C . . ham M D - Rock Islan , · . R. Munnmg M 0' � AJlentown, Pa. (prospective Guild) B. . arger, . · . was called to order at 9:30 a.m. with prayer by The meetmg F W C Moderator of the Cleveland Guild. Very Rev. Msgr. · · arney, After roll call. the president requested vote yon tkheNmiynutes of ·1thde . ] 4 1957 in New or , . . as ma1 e Execut ive Board �eetu�g, u�e · . h �h reading thereof. Approvedby the central office, d1spens mg wit e as ma iJed. FE13RuARY, 1958 33 

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