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Paralysis of the left side set in , the left leg shrivelling up. On August 9, 1731, Mlle. Coirin 'tried the off chance' of a miracle, put on a shift that had touched the tomb of Paris, and used some earth from the grave. On August 11, Mlle.
But as to the phenomena at the tomb of the Abbé Paris, they say that 'suggestion explains them. That is, in the opinion of MM. Binet and Féré the so-called 'miracles' really occurred, and were worked by 'the imagination, by 'self-suggestion. The most famous case that of Mlle. Coirin has been carefully examined by Dr. Charcot. Mlle.
Coirin could turn herself in bed; on the 12th the horrible wound 'was staunched, and began to close up and heal. The paralysed side recovered life and its natural proportions. By September 3, Mlle. Coirin could go out for a drive. All her malady, says Dr. Charcot, paralysis, 'cancer, and all, was 'hysterical; 'hysterical oedema, for which he quotes many French authorities and one American.
Coirin had a dangerous fall from her horse, in September 1716, in her thirty-first year. The medical details may be looked for in Dr. Charcot's essay or in Montgeron. 'Her disease was diagnosed as cancer of the left breast, the nipple 'fell off bodily. Amputation of the breast was proposed, but Madame Coirin, believing the disease to be radically incurable, refused her consent.
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