which they were striking convulsionists,
that I could not restrain a shudder. For the rest, this is an occurrence
to the truth of which there are as many to testify as there have been
persons, whether friends or foes, who have seen the 'great succors.' One
may say, that it is a fact attested by witnesses
innumerable."--Montgeron, Tom. III. p 686.

Independently of the theory of Satanic intervention which the above
details are adduced to disprove, they are very interesting in
themselves, for the insight they give into the exact character of these
terrible probations.

[22] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 694.

[23] Quoted by Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 697.

[24] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 697.

[25] _Memoire Theologique_, p. 96.

[26] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 697.

[27] _Ibid._ p. 698.

[28] _Lettre du Dr. A---- a M. de Montgeron_, p. 8.

[29] _Ibid._ p. 7.

[30] Montgeron, Tom. II. _Idee de l'Etat des Convulsionnaires_, pp. 45,
46. Montgeron does not allege, however, that any other part of the body
than that where the warning pains were felt became insensible or
invulnerable. He cites (Tom. III. p. 629) the case of a convulsionist
who, "at the moment when they were striking her on the breast with all
possible force with a stone weighing twenty-five pounds, bade them
suspend the succors for a moment, till she adjusted, in another part of
her dress, a pin that was pricking her."

[31] Montgeron, Tom. II. _Idee de l'Etat des Convulsionnaires_, pp. 31,
32.

[32] Montgeron, Tom. II. _Idee de l'Etat des Convulionnaires_, p. 33.

[33] _Lettre du Dr. A---- a M. de Montgeron_, p. 7.

[34] _Reponse des Anti-Secouristes a la Reclamation_, par M. Poncet,
p. 4.

[35] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 706.

[36] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 707.

[37] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 720.

[38] _Ibid._ pp. 713, 714.

[39] _Ibid._ p. 719.

[40] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 716.

[41] _Ibid._ p. 721.

[42] _Ibid._ p. 709.

[43] Montgeron, Tom. III. p. 708.

[44] _Ibid._ p. 718.

[45] _Ibid._ p. 709.

[46] Montgeron, Tom. III. pp. 722, 723.

[47] The details are given by M. Morand, a surgeon of Paris of high
reputation, member of the Academy of Sciences, who had been employed by
the Lieutenant of Police to make to him a report on the subject, and who
reproduces the result of his observations in his "Opuscules de
Chirurgie." He found four girls, the centres of whose hands and feet
were indurated by the frequent perforations of the nails. He