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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    iluit lie liild a local disease on the surface of his body. She, however, made no aiuionnceincnt of the aetind afl'cetionj or of any ot her disease of the surface. Upon beiii asked by the inesnieriscr what woidd cure the diseases she had declared the patient to he suileriii from, she rcjilied that he (iMr. Yernon) knew what would do him fjood—viz., mesmerism. The young man, on being afterwards rpies- tioned by Mr. Vernon as to his heidlh, declared that he had not had a hciuiache, or been in any way unwell, for years, except from his swelled legs. III. Frdulein Jon Gonuent. In the sjiringof thcjiresent year (IS 15) advertisements appeared in the public prints, announeing the annval of this lady in London, and her intention to examine and pre- scribe (mesmerieally) for patients either at her own or at the ])atients’ houses; the fee to be ]>aid being, in thelormer case, thri'c guineas, and in the latter six. In the same advertisement some womlerful cures were announced as |)erfonued by her, such as the cure of blindness, in.sanity, &'C. Her brother, with whom she travelled, and who is hermesmeriser, called on me, and exjiressed a strongde. sire, that 1 should visit his sister, and witness her powers, which he described as infallible, both in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. On being assured that the sitting should be [irivate, 1 waited on iliss Von Gbnueni at her lodgings. 1 found her to be an agreeable young damsel of some twenty or twenty-live years of age. No one was
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