“Extreme unction can give back health to the body if it be useful to the glory of God” ... and the priest says that this often happens.  Now, here is the extreme unction: 

“The priest addresses the sick with a short exhortation, if he is in a state to hear it, in order to dispose him worthily to receive the sacrament which is to be administered to him.

“The priest then passes the unction upon the sick person with the stiletto or the extremity of his right thumb, which he dips each time in the oil.  This unction should be made especially upon the five parts of the body which nature has given to man as the organs of sensation, namely:  the eyes, the ears, the nostrils, the mouth and the hands.”

“As the priest makes the unctions [we have followed from point to point the ritual which we have copied], he pronounces the words which correspond to them.

“To the eyes, upon the closed eyeball:  Through this holy unction and His divine pity, may God pardon all the sins that you have committed through sight.  The sick person should at this moment have a new hatred of all the sins committed through sight:  such as indiscreet looks, criminal curiosity, and reading what has caused to be born in him a host of thoughts contrary to faith or morals.”

What has M. Flaubert done?  He has put in the mouth of the priest, by uniting the two parts, what should be in his thoughts and also those of the sick person.  He has copied purely and simply.

“To the ears:  Through this holy unction and through His divine pity, may God pardon all the sins that you have committed through the sense of hearing.  The sick person should, at this moment, detest anew all the errors of which he is guilty from listening with pleasure to slander, calumny, proposed dishonesty and obscene songs.

“To the nostrils:  Through this holy unction and His divine pity, may the Lord pardon all the sins that you have committed through the sense of smell.  At this moment the sick person should detest anew all the sins that he has committed through the sense of smell, his refined and voluptuous search for perfumes, all his sensibilities, all that he has breathed in of iniquitous odors.

“To the mouth, upon the lips:  Through this holy unction and through His great pity, may the Lord pardon you all the sins that you have committed by the sense of taste and words.  The sick man at this moment should detest anew all the sins that he has committed in oaths and blaspheming ... in eating and drinking to excess....

“Upon the hands:  Through this holy unction and through His great pity, may the Lord pardon all the sins that you have committed through the sense of touch.  The sick man ought to detest at this moment all the larcenies, the injustice of which he has been guilty, all the liberties, more or less criminal, which he has allowed himself.  The priest receives the unction on his hands from without because he has already received it from within at the time of his ordination, and the sick person receives it within.