Healing of Cécile Douville de Franssu

At 14 she developed a "white swelling" of the knee from tuberculosis. After 4–5 years of treatment, tuberculous peritonitis appeared and worsened. She had constant pain, hardly any appetite, and fever. In Lourdes on 21 September 1905, with infinite precaution, she was taken to the Baths—from where she emerged cured. On the same evening she was examined at the M.B.V.; no sign of disease was found. For four years her health remained excellent. She celebrated her 100th anniversary in 1985. The Bishop of Versailles officially recognized the cure as miraculous on 8 December 1909.

The Lourdes Medical Bureau gathered documentation; the International Medical Committee (C.M.I.L.) affirmed the cure was inexplicable in the current state of medical knowledge. The Bishop of Versailles recognized it on 8 December 1909. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death before antibiotics. Rapid, complete cure without drugs is medically unexplained.