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.

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    lin, will drop from their hands the graver, already employed to cut deep the characters of everlaftino; gratitude !D O to his memory, and find themfelves reluCtantly obliged to afk—Is this the man who fat his face and name ag.iinft a newly-difcovered agent, at the very moment when he himfelf had improv- ed and afcertained the exiftence of that of electricity, as unexpected and as furprifing as the one he condemns ? They will be driven to the necefiity of fhielding him under the fit ofillnefs which confined him to his houfe at Pafiy, and prevented his attending when his brethren the Commifiion- ers fhould have been at the public treatment. Let us for a moment fuppofe Commillioners had been ap- pointed to examine into, and had damned his difcoveriesWhat would he