At another time, the baby was very sick with black
canker. Mother took him to the Prophet Joseph who went with us to a stream of
water. When the Prophet Joseph took the baby, he laid him across his hand face
down and immersed it in the water. The baby recovered and is now living. (Mary
D. Ensign autobiography, circa 1914, MS 10810, Church History
Library; the term “black canker” at this time referred to gangrene or mouth
ulcers)