Animal magnetism, and homeopathy; being the appendix to Observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy, and Germany / By Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Animal magnetism, and homeopathy; being the appendix to Observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy, and Germany / By Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANIMAL MAGNETISM. 15 lids, on a M. Petit, in whom the results of pre vious trials had been very satisfactory to the mag- netisers. Somnambulism having been induced, M. Petit was requested to select a piece of money from others held in the hand of the magnétiser ; this was done, the coin noted and mixed with twelve others, and the somnambulist Avas desired to point out the one he had selected ; he how ever took the wrong one. A watch was present ed to him, he mistook the hour. Other objects were also presented, but he could never discover immediately what they were ; he took them in his hands, felt and turned them over, brought them near his eyes, and after all, generally guess ed w r rong ; he was able to read a few lines, while the commissioners watched that his eyelids were closed. There is no doubt, however, that the eyes were partially opened, as he could not distinguish any thing, when a bandage was placed before them. Although clairvoyance had been talked of by the magnetisers as a very common phenomenon of magnetism, it was only exhi bited t\A r o or three times before the commis sioners, during a period of six years, and the re sults Avere similar to those above mentioned. The following cases are given, as cures per formed by magnetism. A law student, labouring -under a paralytic affection of the limbs, was treated by the usual means at La Charité, and at the expiration of five months was so far recovered as to be able to get about on crutches. In this state he Avas