Mesmerism, with hints for beginners / by John James.

  • John James
Date:
1891
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Credit: Mesmerism, with hints for beginners / by John James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contrary, many women are powerful mesmerisers, and they have these advantages over men, viz., that they have more patience, and as a rule, more sym- pathy for the suffering. It is, indeed, very desirable that women should more generally exercise their mesmeric powers, as there are many cases where, for evident reasons, female patients should be treated by female practitioners, and thus the chief objection to which mesmerism is open would be done away with. In the present day, when so much is said and written about the difficulty of obtaining suitable employment for women, I cannot imagine a more useful occupation than that of alleviating the sufferings of their own sex, by using those healing powers with which nature has endowed them. The field is large, and there cannot possibly be real occa- sion for jealousy, for were the mesmeric practitioners multiplied a hundredfold, human suffering would still afford a wide field for their exertions. With regard to the mesmeric power of women, there is the well-known case of Miss Harriet Mar- tineau, who had been a great sufferer for many years from a painful internal complaint, when at length she had recourse to mesmerism. Her principal mesmeriser was a lady who, at the request of Mr. H. G. Atkinson, undertook the case, and the following extract, from the notes of the operator, will show with how much effect an ener- getic and sympathising woman can employ her mesmeric powers. “At the request of Mr. Atkinson I undertook the
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