Outlines of medical proof ; with remarks on its application to certain forms of irregular medicine / by Thomas Mayo.

  • Mayo, Thomas, 1790-1871.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Outlines of medical proof ; with remarks on its application to certain forms of irregular medicine / by Thomas Mayo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    and heaven. When firmness was really touched, I was compelled to draw myself up to my full height. When benevolence is pressed, I feel unutterably calm and happy. I cannot express any of the emotions in words unless the organ of language is excited, and then my tongue is loosened and I speak, knowing what I say, but saying it entirely from impulse. Imitation makes me follow most ludicrously Mr. ]N[.'’s words and gestures. By making passes from my knees to the feet, the latter became so chained to the ground that by no effort could I move them, or stir at all. When, in this state, Mr. N. left me, my anxiety to follow Inin became both painful and absurd. I could be thus chained to tlie ground with equal facility when I was otherwise free from mesmeric influence. All that I have mentioned is common to many patients; but from my mind remaining in its normal state, T am able to give a distinct account of my sensations, which I believe is not very nsual.^^ ‘‘ 18th.—I awoke about two o^clock this morning (a very unusual tiling for me) with a restless feeling, and my thoughts full of mesmerism, and a strong conviction that Mr. N. was passing within a short distance of me. On my afterwards asking him, he said that he had passed the house at that hour, on his way to a patient, and in passing had bent his thoughts strongly upon me, willing me under his mesmeric influence. It was some time after this before I could compose myself to sleep, which when it did come was dreaming and confused. This evening, while sitting after toa chatting with my aunt and a friend, the mesmeric spell came over my eyes, limbs, and voice; and it was Avith diffi- culty I roused myself so as to escape observation. However, Mr. N. soon arrived, and owned that as he came from his own house to this, he had been mentally mesmerising me. Nothing very new occurred in my seance of this evening. Excitement of ideality gave me the pov\ er of speech, but caused no other manifestation. The contact of my raesme- riser’s hand with my throat had the same effect, giving
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