Natural and mesmeric clairvoyance : with the practical application of mesmerism in surgery and medicine / by James Esdaile.

  • Esdaile, James, 1808-1859.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Natural and mesmeric clairvoyance : with the practical application of mesmerism in surgery and medicine / by James Esdaile. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    means—First experiment in making a somnambulist—Men in a state of somnambulism stolen out of a public court of justice— Writers on medical jurisprudence, judges, and juries ought to be aware of the crimes that may be committed by the abuse of Mesmerism—Lucid somnambulism made known to the moderns by the Marquis de Puysegur—Absurdity of attempting to solve a scientific problem by a money bribe—Case of clairvoyant reading of a bank-note, reported by Dr. Chalmers, Presi- dency Surgeon, Calcutta — Cases of mesmeric clairvoyance reported by Dr. Engledue—Earl of Ducie—Lord Fitzclarence— Mr. Topham, barrister-at-law—The Hon. Miss Boyle—By the Author Dangers of ecstatic somnambulism—The natural medical instinct of animals—Of man . . .47 CHAPTER III. Remarkable and anomalous phenomena sometimes witnessed in mesmerised persons-They occasionally throw light on the cause of the general effect upon the system—First experiments only relied upon—Examples of conscious trance—Of loss of memory for some time previous to the trance—Oblivion of waking in- tervals-Mesmeric deliriuin-Local rigidity and insensibility produced without affecting the general consciousness-The senses extinguished.and restored one by one, the consciousness remaining entire-A similar case with community of taste— . u i- ■ HO Mesmeric attraction. CHAPTER IV. Medical men at present not entitled to dictate their mesmeric belief to the public - Doctors, in general, as ignorant of Mesmerism as the public-The Author's complete ignorance