Veritas: or, a treatise, containing observations on, and a supplement to the two reports of the commissioners, appointed by the King of France to examine into animal magnetism / Translated from the French.

  • John de Mainauduc
Date:
1785
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Credit: Veritas: or, a treatise, containing observations on, and a supplement to the two reports of the commissioners, appointed by the King of France to examine into animal magnetism / Translated from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ « ] ' W * D’Eflon, did I not, by giving their publication in another language to the world, endeavour to follow the no- ble example they had fet, for the be- nefit of mankind ; laying afide for a moment their delicacy of fex, and fu- periority of rank, to explain to their fellow fufferers the difeafes they had laboured under, and the means by whicfi they had been cured. Thefe tranfiations, part of which, for want of time, I was obliged to re- ceive from one of the profefiors of a feminary in France, fall greatly fhort of the original in elegance of ftile ; but an almoft literal tranflation will convey the Author’s meaning, and enable the candid reader to form a juft judgment of the ftrength of his rea- foning, as well as of the jufticeof his caufe Do&or