Animal electricity and magnetism, &c. demonstrated after the laws of nature, with new ideas upon matter and motion : in two parts / by the Rev. John Bell, professor of that science.

Bell, John, professor of animal magnetism

Date:: [1790?]

Credit: Animal electricity and magnetism, &c. demonstrated after the laws of nature, with new ideas upon matter and motion : in two parts / by the Rev. John Bell, professor of that science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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( *5 ) ner to any other part of the body, becaufe there is a re-ac- tion of fluid from one pole to the other, like a magnet, as Dr. Mefmer reprefents the human body as a magnet; if you eftablifh the North to the right, the left becomes the South, and the middle like the Equator, which is with- out predominant a£lion.—I repeat it; it is moil advan- tageous to be oppofite the perfon you want to treat in order to cure him effe&ually. Curing confifts in re- eftablifhing the difturbed harmony—the general remedy is the application of the animal fluid, which ferves to re- eftablifh the equilibrium which is loft in fome part of the body. As there is but one difeafe, there is but one reme- dy : if motion is diminifhed, it ought to be increafed : if there is too great irritability, it ought to be decreafed : as it is on folid bodies that this fluid operates, particularly on our vifcera, in order to reflify them, as they are def- tined by Nature to prepare, to diffolve, and affimulate our humors, they fhould be brought to their equilibrium by any means whatever, either by employing internal or ex- ternal remedies; but we ought to be very cautious how we adminifter them, except fuch as the patients will order for themfelves or prefcribe for others, which are generally very fimple. There are few remedies taken internately which are good, becaufe when received in the ftomach and the firft paffages, they experience the fame elabora- tion as our aliments, the parts of which analogous to our humours are affimilated there by chylification, and the heterogeneous particles are expelled by the means of excretions. Thofe remedies which may be given will prove to have often the effe&s contrary to the intentions

Animal electricity and magnetism, &c. demonstrated after the laws of nature, with new ideas upon matter and motion : in two parts / by the Rev. John Bell, professor of that science.

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