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The Friendly Daemon, or the Generous Apparition / Being a True Narrative of a Miraculous Cure, Newly Perform'd Upon That Famous Deaf and Dumb Gentleman, Dr. Duncan Campbel, by a Familiar Spirit That Appear'd to Him in a White Surplice, Like a Cathedral Singing Boy cover

The Friendly Daemon, or the Generous Apparition / Being a True Narrative of a Miraculous Cure, Newly Perform'd Upon That Famous Deaf and Dumb Gentleman, Dr. Duncan Campbel, by a Familiar Spirit That Appear'd to Him in a White Surplice, Like a Cathedral Singing Boy

Chapter 4: POSTSCRIPT.
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A first-person narrator describes a prolonged, debilitating affliction of convulsions, impaired speech and sight, and repeated failures of conventional remedies. After attempts with physicians, home cures, and cold baths, the narrator attributes recovery to a miraculous intervention by a familiar spirit appearing in a white surplice like a cathedral singing boy. The narrative blends medical detail, personal testimony, reflections on providence and belief in apparitions, and gratitude toward friends and caregivers who witnessed or aided the healing.

POSTSCRIPT.

THE Powder, communicated to Doctor Campbel by his Genius, together, with the Use of the Loadstone, having wrought many wonderful Cures upon other Patients as well as himself; this Postscript is to acquaint the Publick, that any Person labouring under one or more of the following Calamities, viz. Hypochondriacal, Hysterical, Epileptical, Convulsive, or any other sort of Fits that either Sex can be subject to, may be reliev'd, after the same manner as aforemention'd; at Doctor Campbel's House, in Buckingham-Court, over against Old Man's Coffee-House at Chairing-Cross, where they may be readily furnish'd with his Pulvis Miraculosus, and the finest sort of Ægyptian Loadstones, ready arm'd and fitted for the purpose, which if apply'd and continu'd according to Direction never fail of Success.