Illustrations of modern mesmerism from personal investigation / [Sir John Forbes].

  • John Forbes
Date:
1845
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Credit: Illustrations of modern mesmerism from personal investigation / [Sir John Forbes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    script to the Third Series. I make no apology for any rc])ctitions they contain, nor for other imperfections of style vvhicli will be found in them. Knowing the ori- ginal llej)orts to 1)0 accurate as to matters of bict, I w!is naturally unwilling, for the sake of mere ])olish, to nm any risk of diminishing their value in the oidy ])oiut in respect of which I claimed some merit for them. My reasons for appenebng the ease of Miss ^Martincau’s d., as an additional illustration, will be fomid in the text. IIow far the anticipations of my friends arc correct, as to the more genend interest likely to be taken in these Papers,—remains to be seen ; but, sUght as they are, 1 am disposed to bebeve that they may be of some bcnctit not merely to the public, but to t he Mesmerists themselves. If received simply as specimens or illustra- tions of the sort of things which mesmeric professors daily hold forth to the world, and wliich the world re- ceives, as inarN'cls of the highest order and as tniths
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