A person comes, and gets cured.

He has but to get three doctors together to examine the case.

They will disagree as to what was the disease from which the patient suffered, and the only explanation left which will be acceptable to the public, with its hankering after the lie, is that a miracle has been vouchsafed.
"I interviewed a number of people at Lourdes, and could not find one who would declare that he had witnessed a miracle.

All the cases which I describe in my book are real cases, in which I have only changed the names of the persons concerned.

In none of these instances was I able to discover any real proof for or against the miraculous nature of the cure.
Thus, in the case of Clementine Trouve, who figures in my story as Sophie--the patient who, after suffering for a long time from a horrid open sore on her foot, was suddenly cured, according to current report, by bathing her foot in the piscina, where the bandages fell off, and her foot was entirely restored to a healthy condition--I investigated that case thoroughly.