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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    ■H tlicir order in tlic box—e, r, s, a. Tlic lioxcs were llicii unsealed and 0])ened in 1 lie presence of the persons iis- scinbled, and the real letters and words cxliibited. Trial G (The Lady).—Jtuie 21, at J/r. Vernon's (same erening as the Trial F.) Mr. Vcnion bavin repeatedly expressed his wishes that I should briii a patient to this lady, to test her diiignostic ])Owers, which he spoke of as almost infallible, I took with me on this occasion a yonii man known to me for years, and with the state of whose hcidth 1 was well iicfpiainted. lie was, in fact, in verj prood health, except that he had long laboured under enormously large varices of the veins of the legs. These were so large that it would bo very eiusy to detect them by [)res- sure through the clothes, and, therefore, to guard jigainst this, ho wiis requested to wear trousers and long boots. The somnambulist proceeded to feel the patient’s body all over, j)assing slightly over the lower extremities, and resting chiefly on the chest and abdomen. After a considerable time so occupied, she announced a variety of affections and symptoms as constituting his malady, such as a weakness of stomach, palpitation, breathless- ness, great irritation of nerves, &c. &c. Fearing that it miht be afterwards alleged that the varicose condition of the veins wiis not a disease, I mpicsted her to direct at- tention to the surface of the body, telling her dislinetly, without letting hw know that he had no internal tliscase,
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