. . . [in 1833 in Jackson County, Missouri] I was wounded in a Battle above big blue with a
ball and two buck shot in the bowels. I bled inwardly till my body filled with
blood. I walked home a half of a mile, the blood lay in me 48 hours. I was
examined by a surgeon by the name of Marsh from Boston. He was in Black hawks
War. He said that he never saw a man shot as I was that ever lived that I was a
dead man . . . I was visited by an Elder by the name of Newel Knight who administered
to me by the laying on of hands. The Spirit of God accompanying it. Commencing
at the crown of my head passing through my body then my limbs going out of the
end of my toes and fingers . . . I discharged four quarts of blood by the way
of the stool. I was then made whole from that very hour. (Philo
Dibble Statement)
