Human magnetism; its claims to dispassionate inquiry. Being an attempt to show the utility of its application for the relief of human suffering / [William Newnham].
- William Newnham
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Human magnetism; its claims to dispassionate inquiry. Being an attempt to show the utility of its application for the relief of human suffering / [William Newnham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ticism and mystery in every possible shape—as undefaced by those crotchets which mark the monomaniacal tendency, and as undistinguished by enthusiasm, except it be the enthusiasm of advancing professional knowledge, and of relieving the sufferings of the miserable. Claiming therefore your belief in the sincerity and honesty of your reporter, he must just explain ¢o you that among the many thousand witnesses, he has alto- gether thrown aside as worthless all those— 1. Who are witnesses only of one particular fact, or series of facts : 2. Who may be supposed to be znterested in proving the truth of their assertions: 3. Who have not verified their assertions by every possible and prudent means: 4. Who are said to have received advantages from mag- netism, and therefore whose judgments may have been warped by imaginary benefits conferred : 5. Who may, from their position, or connexion, or pre- vious association, have been prejudiced in favour of its phenomena: 6. Who from their class in life, early education, and mental development, or literary or professional] habits, do not appear likely to be free from the taint of easy credence ; and have not been accustomed to those processes of search- ing investigation, which for the most part belong to the philosopher only, and perhaps especially to the medical philosopher: 7. Whose character for fidelity was not established,—and generally all those over whom the breath of suspicion](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33492967_0044.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
