Veritas, or, A treatise, containing observations on, and a supplement to the two reports of the commissioners, appointed by the King of France to examine into animal magnetism / translated from the French, with certificates of cures performed at Calais, by John Bonnoit de Mainauduc. Vol. I.

  • De Mainauduc, Jean Boniot, -1797.
Date:
1785
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Credit: Veritas, or, A treatise, containing observations on, and a supplement to the two reports of the commissioners, appointed by the King of France to examine into animal magnetism / translated from the French, with certificates of cures performed at Calais, by John Bonnoit de Mainauduc. Vol. I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [ * ] buting to the patients Imaginations, or to the influence of Imitation, or to the operator’s ignorance in the art of magnetiiing, and making the patients fufler from his roughnefs in in touching them. It cannot be won- dered at that fuch perfons feel them- felves hurt by the Commiflioners’ er- ror, as well as by their unfortunate method of expoflng that error ; nor will it appear furpriflng that they take fuch pains to fave the reft of mankind from the influence oi it, when wre conflder that, to ufe Sterne’s words, “Their blood is milk, and curdles at another’s woe;” if it had not, they would have remained filent and in- different to the fate of mankind. That Animal Magnetifm will flou- rifh in every corner of the world, and that it will be received among the other improvements