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But the seven clergymen were at last successful, and seven
devils were cast out, after which Lukins retired, and appears to
have been supported during the remainder of his life as a
monument of mercy.
With this great effort the old theory in England seemed
practically exhausted.
Science had evidently carried the stronghold. In 1876, at a
little town near Amiens, in France, a young woman suffering with
all the usual evidences of diabolic possession was brought to the
priest. The priest was besought to cast out the devil, but he
simply took her to the hospital, where, under scientific
treatment, she rapidly became better.[[165]]
The final triumph of science in this part of the great field has
been mainly achieved during the latter half of the present century.
Following in the noble succession of Paracelsus and John
Hunter and Pinel and Tuke and Esquirol, have come a band of
thinkers and workers who by scientific observation and research
have developed new growths of truth, ever more and more precious.
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