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Credit: Hypnotism, mesmerism and the new witchcraft / by Ernest Hart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[sic], and I promised to remain one. He also put an impression on me never to be mesmerised again by anyone. Of course, all these things never come true. Poor Mr. would seem to have been fooled to the top of his bent; and from the correspondence which his tricky subject placed in my hands he would seem to have paid, one way or the other, a good deal of money for the imposition practised upon him. He may, I think, be taken as a type of the scientific man who is led astray when he touches hypnotism and cognate subjects, not so much by the want of knowledge or power of observation, as by what I should call want of insight into character to control the merely scientific judgment. Being curious to study the ieclmiqne of so excep- tionally gifted an artist as Jj., I accepted his offer, to use his own elegant language, ' to give a show' at my house. I invited several medical acquaintances interested in hypnotism, including Dr. J. Milne Bram- well, Dr. Hack Tuke, Dr. Outterson Wood, Surgeon- Colonel J. B. Hamilton, Mr. Wingfield, and others, to be present on the occasion. L. brought two other subjects with him : one of these was introduced by him as his cousin, hwt there was so strong a family likeness between all the three, that they might easily have passed for brothers. There are few people who, as Sydney Smith said of Francis Horner, ' have the Ten Commandments written on their faces.' It is, therefore, not the fault of these ingenuous youths that their physiognomy is not exactly, to put it delicately, such I](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21912439_0199.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
