Facts in Mesmerism: With Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry Into itH. Bailliere, 1844 - 390 pages |
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Page ix
... mesmeric influence , while , at the same time , it is capable of eliciting the highest state of moral and intellectual advancement to which man , in this existence , can probably attain . This remark is the more necessary to be made ...
... mesmeric influence , while , at the same time , it is capable of eliciting the highest state of moral and intellectual advancement to which man , in this existence , can probably attain . This remark is the more necessary to be made ...
Page xviii
... mesmeric slumber , it was remarkable that R. T. could bear to have his right ... mesmeric passes either soothed , or arrested the patient's sufferings , and ... influence over him , and had the ability to quiet his paroxysms of pain , or ...
... mesmeric slumber , it was remarkable that R. T. could bear to have his right ... mesmeric passes either soothed , or arrested the patient's sufferings , and ... influence over him , and had the ability to quiet his paroxysms of pain , or ...
Page xix
... mesmeric influence were manifested even unto the end of my dear friend's life . Yet he owed a deeper debt than this to Mesmerism ! -It had reclaimed him from the hardest infidelity ! Of a singular organisation , R. T. - the most amiable ...
... mesmeric influence were manifested even unto the end of my dear friend's life . Yet he owed a deeper debt than this to Mesmerism ! -It had reclaimed him from the hardest infidelity ! Of a singular organisation , R. T. - the most amiable ...
Page xxv
... effect of Mesmerism upon animals , has declared that the mesmeric influence is more quickly , and easily conveyed , through the medium of water , to fish , than it is by the air to the apparently more sensitive tribes of nature ...
... effect of Mesmerism upon animals , has declared that the mesmeric influence is more quickly , and easily conveyed , through the medium of water , to fish , than it is by the air to the apparently more sensitive tribes of nature ...
Page xxx
... effect still more ; and yet again , that where organic obstructions to the working of the influence were less , or null , the fullest success would crown the mesmeriser's efforts . Again . The fact of Mesmerism having been able to com ...
... effect still more ; and yet again , that where organic obstructions to the working of the influence were less , or null , the fullest success would crown the mesmeriser's efforts . Again . The fact of Mesmerism having been able to com ...
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