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By JAMlES YICTOR WILSON.

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"LAY THY HANDS UPON THE SICK AND THEY SHALLRECOVER.' '"-Bible.

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"Certain wise physicians, even among the ancients, weraware how beneficial to the blood it is to make slight fric-tions with the hands over the body. It is believed by manyexperienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of thehand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary andsuaging. The remedy has peen found to be applicable tosudden as well as to habitual pains, and various species ofdebility, being both renovating and strengthening in its ef-fects. It has often appeared, while I have thus been sooth-ing my patients, as if there were a singular property in myhande toa pulll and draw away from the affected parts, achesand divers impurities, by laying my hand upon the place,and by extendine my fingers towards it. Thus it is kuownto some of the earned, that health may be implanted inthe sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another."--HIPPOORATES.

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PUBLISHER'S PREFACE

THE practical application of Animal Mag-netism affords a means of using nature'slaws without the danger that so often

follows the use of drugs. Thirty-fiveyears ago its use was much more in

vogue than it has been during lateryears, owing, perhaps, to the ease and ra-pidity with which surgeons can use anaes-

thetics which were not then discovered,whereas it requires a longer time to se-cure perfect unconsciousness of pain bythis safer process. If people realized howmany there are possessing healing and

magnetic power, this would be muchmore used as an assuager of suffering.

We learn our power in this directiononly by its use, and the object in send-ing forth this useful pocket manual is

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to draw attention to the subject. Scarce.ly a family but contains one or moremembers who can with perfect safety re-lieve pain more effectually and quicklythan can be done by the use of any butvery unsafe drugs. Who would notrather make use of the safest measures ?

James Victor Wilson-the author-a singularly pure-minded, talented andpromising young man, gained the inter-est of all who knew him, and who hopedmuch from him. He had previously beeninterested in educational topics, and hadprepared a Mathematical work showinggreat genius.

The first edition of this little treasurewas published in 1847, and was soon ex-hausted. He then revised and improvedit and gave it to Mr. Samuel R. Wells,for republication, and very soon after-ward "passed on," and, for some reasonnot now understood, it was not pub-lished.

On re-reading it recently, its utility

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presented itself so forcibly, that we de-termined to republish it now, trustingit will fill a niche which has thus farbeen vacant and will prove itself use-ful. That its leaves may carry healthand happiness to many, is the heartywish of the

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

The Simplicity of the Art--The Unreasonable-ness of Persons in not trying it with theirown Hands--Magnetism valuable as a Reme-dial Agent--As a Surgical Auxiliary-As aTamer of Lunatics and Beasts--As an Illu-minator of the Mind for Scientific, Secular,Literary and Medical Purposes--As affordingdemonstration of Immortality.

CHAPTER II.

Animals charm Animals-Animals infatuateMan--Man fascinates Animals-Men bewitchMen--Magnetism instinctive to Animals andMan as a Curative--The Vital Forces attrac-tive from one person to another-The An-cients made extensive use of it--Magnetismthe chief agent in all species of Demonology-The Bible proves the reality of both Mag-netism and Clairvoyance - Many ModernFacts prove it--The Phenomena and Symp-toms of it are well known to Physicians in

CONTENTS.

various Diseases-Human Influence, Mentaland Physical--The Reality of Prophecy--Organic Prevision--None disbelieve Magnet-ism but those who refuse to test it--Philos-ophy of the Power--Its Consistency withNature.

CHAPTER III.

All may be Magnetized--Those of light-coloredEyes the readiest Subjects--Ill-health pre-disposes to the Action-The most Perfectand Matured Minds make the most valuableClairvoyants.

CHAPTER IV.

The modus operandi-Magnetism a Double Pro-cess-To charge the subject-To abstract thenervous aura from him--How to proceedduring Somnipathy--How to awake him-How to develop his interior faculties.

CHAPTER V.

To Magnetize for Local Pain-For Disease-For Surgery-To Magnetize Wands, Medi-cines, Water, Amulets, Bandages.

CHAPTER VI.

To form a Human Magnetic Battery--TheSuperior Facility of this method of Magnet-izing-Mode of Procedure.

BENEFITS AND PROSPECTS OF

MAGNETISM.

MILLIONS at the present day do notrealize that they are living in an erawhich is the dawn of a transcendantperiod of human knowledge and happi-ness. Vast discoveries in the physicalsciences--yea, even the discovery of newsciences, are fast waking up the latentenergies of human intelligence and enter-prise to the realizing of golden dreams ofthe past. But chiefly are new fields ofthought, exploration, and beneficencebeing opened to the human understandmug, now that the long-clouded and wonderful powers of THE LIVING SOUL arebeginning to be seen and felt.

Were a celestial being to come out ofheaven, and declare and show proofs to

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mankind that every individual of theworld, of all ages, sexes, and conditions,possessed basined up within themselvesan unconscious power of converting min-erals into gold, by no other agents thantheir pair of hands and fingers, scarcelya man or woman that lives would notforthwith begin to exert the magic in-fluence that had thus for so many ageslain dormant in their mysterious organ-ization. Notwithstanding that the verysimplicity of the means would seem torender such an idea absurd, yet if wealthwere promised as the result, men wouldvie with one another who should be thefirst to satisfy themselves of its reahtyby testing it with their own hands.

But now when it has been brought tolight that a real, substantial, and unim-versal power does exist in the humanframe, of even far greater practicalvalue than a discovery by which themetals might be transformed to gold, it

seems to be a somewhat tardy matter to

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persuade the world even to look at whatis proving itself to be an unprecedentedand incomparable disclosure. It is singular that a thing which presents itselfto men so completely devoid of mysticism, which is so free from difficulties.and which at the same time offers suchmunificent reward, should be so neglectedand profaned. Though you will continueto despise it, until you KNOW what it is,be assured that in making a fair trial ofit with your own hands, and with a sub-ject of your own, you will be convincedfar beyond our power of convincing you.

* I ask ye if your cherish'd ones, sharp anguish should en-dure,

Which the stated arts of medicine had in vain essay'dto cure,

Would it not grieve ye to be told, ye might those pangaallay,

But that, jestingly and mockingly, ye cast that meansaway ?"

When Sir William Bell wrote his trea-tise on "The Human Hand," and exhib-ited its admirable and ingenious mechan-ism, he left altogether unnoticed by far

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the most wonderful and adorable featureof its structure, its power of transmittingat the fingers' ends the life-forces of thesystem, to the alleviation of pain, andeven the eradication of disease, in others;its power of throwing strong men into atorpor in which the most frightful surgi-cal operations can be performed withoutpain; its power of quelling the fiercenessof maniacs and wild beasts; its power ofexalting poor minds to the illumined con-dition of Prophets and Hierophants-ofmultiplying gifted SEERS to the progress-ing race of man; seers into the labyrinthsof the mortal system-the springs and an-tidotes of disease: into vast epicycles ofthe past, far distant realms of the present,and even glimpsically into the mystic fu-ture; into the multiform economy of Na-ture, the sciences of elements, and of therevolving, teeming universe; into thelofty capacities of man, the tendenciesof this globe, and the glorious workingsand destinies of the works of Jehovah.

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None of these achievements of theHeaven-bequeathed art are yet exten-sively realized or believed, but thecourse of their progress is accelerating,and the time at hand when they shall be.Over all suffering will it hold empiricmastery. "Then shall the eyes of theblind be opened, and the ears of the deafshall be unstopped; then shall the lameman leap as the hart, and the tongue ofthe dumb shall sing."

CHAPTER I.

PI HT2 ABRGUMENTS IN PROOF OP MAONETISM.

I.

Various beasts, birds, reptiles, fishes,and insects are known to exercise powersof fascination over each other, so as toproduce many of the symptoms that at-tend Human Magnetism.

II.

Many truthful instances are on record,of certain animals exerting the infatuat-ing power over women, children, andweak men.

III.

Published facts attest the power ofmankind to subdue fierce beasts, wildhorses, bulls, mad dogs, serpents, birds,etc., by the magnetic or fascinatingpower. 1

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IV.

It is an instinctive and most efficaciouspractice of certain savage nations, andcertain animal tribes, to employ the pro-cess of stroking, patting, etc., for the re-lief of pain in their fellows.

V.

That there is such a thing as an ema-nation and attraction of the health andvital principle from the human body, isproved by an abundance of facts showingthat when the strong and the weak, thehealthy and the sick, the old and theyoung, sleep, or mingle closely together,the vigor of the infirm party is increased(See 1 Kings, i. 2.)

VI.

The ancients were really acquaintedwith some manner of curing diseases, ap-peasing pain, and inducing sleep and in-sensibihty by means of certain manipula-tions; as is proved by relhcs of classical

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and oriental literature painting, sculpture, hieroglyphics, and traditions.

VII

It is demonstrable that a great deal ofthe inexplicable jugglery, sorcery, witch-craft, fortune-telhlng. necromancy, andastrologizing of magi, prophets, gods,priests, kings, fanatics, mysteriouswomen and miracle-working men, in allages, were in part wrought by the subtlepowers of Magnetism-not understood bythemselves, and therefore held as super-natural,

VIII.

Among many other ancient books, THEBIBLE recognizes the practice of remov-ing pains and diseases by means of mag-netism, and also the reality of clairvoy-ance, by various terms, such as soothsay-ing, laying on of hands, expelling de-mons, having a familiar spirit, seeingheaven opened, etc.*

* The following list of passages might be considerablyenlarged:

"Naman said, I thought he would stand and strie hI~


IX.

Millions of irrefutable facts concern.Ing the efficiency of Human Magnetismas a remedial agent, as a surgical auxili-ary, its singular effects as a subduer ofthe body, and its supreme tendencies asan illuminator of the mind-that havebeen manifested in Europe and America,

hands [" up and down"--margin] over the place, and re-cover the leper." (2 Kings, v. 11.)

"He put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, IwlL; be thou clean.' -Matt. vii. 3. "Lay thy hand uponher, and she shalh live."-Matt. ix. 18.

Many were astonished that such mighty works werewrought by his hands."-Mark vi. 2. "Lay hands uponthe sick, and t.ey shall recover."--Mark xvi. 18.

The Lord granted signs and wonders to be done bytheir hands. "-Acts xiv. 3.' The Lord said unto Moses, Take Joshua, the son of

Nun a man mn whom is the spirit, and lay thy hands uponh:n Set him before the priest and congregation, and askcounsel from him And he laid his hands upon him, as theLord commanded."--Numb. xxvii. 18, 23. "And Joshuawas full bf the spirit of wisdom, because Moses had laidhis hands upon him."-Deuteronomy xxxiv. 9.

Refer also to Gen. xv. 12; xxvii'. 16; Numb. xxiv. 4, 16;1 Sam xxviii. 11, 14; 1 Kings xix 5; Jer. xxxi. 26; Ezek.xi. 24; Dan x. 7 9; Joel ii 28 Zech. iv. 1; Matt. xxviii. 3,4: Luke ix. 32" Acts ix. 3: xi. 5; xxii. 10, 11, 17; 2 Cor. xii1, 2, 4 9, 28, Rev. i. 17.


from Mesmer's day to the present, havenow become more or less a part of theknowledge and experience of almost everycommunity.

x.

Many medical authors and experiencedphysicians inform us of numerous phe-nomena developed by diseases, which areidentical with, and no less surprising,than many of the disputed manifesta-tions of induced Magnetism.

XI.

That the pretensions of Magnetism andClairvoyance are not unreasonable, orunprecedented, or impossible, is obviousfrom the fact, that every kind of phe-nomena that is claimed as the results ofMagnetism, from its lowest to its higheststages, have also been repeatedly mani-fested in cases of natural somnambulism,catalepsy, syncope, various kinds oftrance, somniferum, second sight, etc.


XII.

The transfixing and infatuating powerpossessed by celebrated orators, generals,preachers, and musicians, over others, bytheir presence and voice, is evidence ofthe potent influence of the sympatheticor swaying principle powerfully directedto weaker minds or bodies.

XIII.

Indisputable instances of accurate, cir-cumstantial, and astonishing prevision,presentiment and prophetic announce-ment and dreaming, which have beentestified to in all ages of the world-through Greek and Egyptian oracles,sleeping seers, narcotic adepts, and in-dividuals of exalted sensibility and sub-limated instinct, are not to be denied, inthe face of truthful history, merely be-cause the same 'results are being repro-duced by Clairvoyance. An organ ofprevision or intuitive foresight, nearlyfllied to Causality, has been claimed as


existing and being remarkably developedin such cases.

The lves of Plato, Socrates, St. Augustine, Galen, Joan D'Arc, Swedenborg,Cellm, Cazotte, Zschokke, and Fourier,comprise but a few of the Innumerablefacts which exist to sustain this proposi-tion.

XIV.

Organic prevision among the tribes ofthe animal kingdom embraces a class ofmarvellous instinctive foresights analogous to those attending Human Cla n.voyance.

XV.

None who have ever practically testedfor themselves, nor any committee ofscientific men who have ever investi-gated and scrutinized the effects of Mag-netism, have been able to deny the real-Ity of the phenomena elicited. Even theFrench Royal Academy unanimously at-tested to the amazingness of the factsthat were brought out at their trial4

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though they were divided as to theagency of a magnetic fluid mn producingthem. A majority therefore attributedthe results to "artificial excitement ofthe imagination."

XVI.

It is quite as reasonable to supposethat the nerves (of which the humansystem contains two sets--those of mo.tzon and those of sensation) are per.vaded with a fluid, as that the veinsand other receptacles of the body eafilled with their appropriate hiquids.And it is quite reasonable to admit thatthe Internal form, which is so much moreperfect than the outer should be connected with it by a very refined, andeven imponderable essence.

XVII.

It is by abstracting and influencing thelife-essences in the two sets of nerves, inmany and various proportions, that allthe multifarious stages and results of

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Magnetism and Clairvoyance are pro-duced, from natural sleep to sleep-waking, sympathism, catalepsy, interior ex-altation, and total separation, which isDEATH.

XVIII.

The principles and effects of Mag-netism have a counterpart in variousgeneral laws of nature-the laws ofequilibrium, attraction, development, ren-ovation, association, etc.*

* Extensive Jlustrations and completions of ahe aboveskeleton arguments will be found in various authors onthis subject-Davis, Newman, Deleuze, Leger, Newnham,Hall. Buchanan, Bush, etc., besides many additional argKment.

CHAPTER II.

RLrS FOR THE SELECION OF GOOD T3BJECTS.

1. There is sufficient warrant for be-hieving that every living person may bemagnetized, although it is equally certainthat, from various causes, all are not alikeeasily subjected to the operation, norequally qualified to ascend its heights ofperfection. Two things, then, are usefulto be known to all who would success-fully investigate its mysteries-whatpersons are most readily susceptible;which are capacitated to enter the h gher

spheres which Magnetism comprehends.2. In answer to the first, we will say,

that one mark of an easily impressibleperson, is very fine and soft hair; an-other is light, soft complexion, another is

light, full, and expressive eyes; another25

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is regular, handsome features. Personscombining all of these make valuablesubjects.

3. Debility of health, and most kindsof disease, predispose persons readily toMagnetism, as well as to far speedier ac-cess to the Clairvoyant states.

4. Select for your subject, in general,a person who is some years younger,and somewhat physically weaker thanyourself. And by all means choose onewho is of a dif'erent temperament fromyourself. It is very hard for a Mag-netizer to affect a person of very similartemperament to his own.

5. As a general rule, if you se.ek easysubjects, select those of lighter eyes andcomplexion than yourself; it is foundexceedingly hard, commonly, to affectthose of darker eyes than ourselves.Blacks, nevertheless, make capital sub-jects for eliciting the physical phe-nomena.

6. After all, no invariable rule has

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been discovered by which it can be pos.itively declared-such a person will bevery hard to magnetize, and such an onevery easy. Some magnetizers fail to pro-duce the least impression upon subjectswhich others have made to sleep at thefirst trial. Certain nervous persons aresingularly difficult to operate upon, whilesome very corpulent and even muscularpersons have been readily put to sleepby individuals of half their strength.This warrants us to try, even if wedoubt.

7. But to be in quest of valuable sub-

jects is quite a different thing. We arenot sure but that the best subjects areamong those who are the most tardy inattaining the Clairvoyant conditions.And none others sometimes are so hardto bring to these conditions as those ofactive and matured mind. Undoubtedly,if you can get such for your subjects, yourlabors will be far better rewarded. Nomatter how one may disagree physically

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with our rules, persevere, remember-ing that, by patience and continuity, anyman can be magnetized. The most ex-alted Clairvoyants living are, in theirnatural state, uncultivated minds; whatmight we not expect if we could illu-minate a Clay, a Hemans, a Seneca, aNewton?

8. Benevolence is a trait as valuablein a subject as a fine intellect. Loqua-cious persons are harder to act upon thantaciturn. Male subjects are better forscientific and business purposes--femalefor literary and previsional.

9. You can ascertain definitely fromany good Clairvoyant what kind of sub-ject a person shown to them will make,under your management, and other col-lateral information,

CHAPTER II.

THE MA GNETIC PR OCESSES EXPLAINED.

1. Sit at the side or before your sub-ject, in a tranquil, easy manner.

2. Request that he resign himself pas-

sively and gently to your influence, andpay attention to nothing foreign. Lethim either close his eyes-fix them stead-fastly towards yours, or upon a magnet-ized silver coin on your lap or breast, andlet his mind be fixed upon the certainty

of his sleeping.3. Hold his hands by the thumbs,

yours joining his, at the balls--his lefthand crossed to your left, and right toright.

4. Nearly the most important part of

any trial upon a new subject, is, by your

confident and assured manner towards

him in undertaking, to give him the arF29

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PREHENSION of your power to put himasleep in a little while.

5. Employ your will calmly and zeal-ously upon the desire to put him to sleep,directing your eyes to the point midwaybetween his. Place your feet on theround of his chair, that he may extendhis arms upon your knees.

6. Keep his thumbs until you perceivethat the heat between your hands andhis is equal. This will take from one toten minutes. You may dispense withthis altogether.

7. Now you will commence the mag-netic process. Hold your hands upon hishead, lightly, in such a manner that thepalms shall cover his temples, and thetips of the fingers rest upon his head.Or, place your hands upon his foreheadso that the palms shall cover the eyes,and the fingers rest upon his forelocks.Incline your foreheads towards eachother, and, to avoid tiring, rest yourelbows upon your knees.

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8. Persevere with thus charging hishead until his eyelids become heavy, andclose involuntarily together, so that theystick fast. No matter how intractable asubject he be, if he does not resist, andif you PERSist, he will yield at last. Itmay take five minutes, it may take fivesittings of half an hour or more each.At any rate, it is useless to proceedotherwise until you do fasten his eyelids,and there is no speedier means.

9 When you have thus succeeded infastening his eyes, take your hands fromhis temples, and point your extendedfingers a httle while successively beforehis eyes, forehead, top, sides, and backof head. then towards his face, chest, andstomach.

10 If you have gone through thesepreparatory means properly, and withpatience and concentration, the chargingdepartment of the magnetic action willbe well accomplished. But now, you willhave to learn that to magnetize fully is

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a double process, and that a differentmode is now requisite.

11. You are now to commence the taskof drawing of the magnetic essence youhave surcharged him with, and with ityou will necessarily draw a portion ofhis own.

12. Do this by moving your handsslowly down from his head to his fingers,along the arms, inside, beginning both atthe back and top of his head. Also, byattracting the fluid at intervals down infront, from the forehead, over the face,at a little distance, to the stomach andknees.

13. Terminate the sitting after half anhour, if his eyes relapse awake, or if hebe not fallen asleep. Sooner or later,however, by repeating the trials as be-fore, you will have your subject in thswholesome magnetic state, which at firstwill somewhat resemble natural sleep;and he will improve in proportion as youpursue the trials regularly, as you take

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care of and esteem him, and keep himfree from unpropitious influences.

14. At his early experience in the mag-netico-soporific state, it is well to let himsleep on for awhile without disturbance,and also to continue the drawing processfor some time after he falls asleep

15. When you are ready to speak tohim, ask, how he feels? Then, one ofthese three things will take place; he willbe aroused from a mere forgetfulness, and

wake; he will sleep on without speaking;or he will answer you. In the latter casehe has entered upon the somnambulicstate.

16. If he answers, it is well to inquire,1st, Whether your manner of procedureagrees with him, and if he can point outa better? 2d, Whether he can think ofanything that would be useful to say, oradvise? 3d, Whether he perceives lightin his brain, and what degree of it? 4th,Whether he can perceive his Magnetizer,where is located his organ of vision, and

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how you can improve its clearness9 5th,Whether he is able to look into yoursystem, or his own, and say anythingconcerning them? 6th, How far he cansee, whether he can travel, and whetherhe can conjecture anything that willtake place? 7th, How soon he will beable to look into your mind, so as to perceive a word you may think of, and if hewill otherwise improve in his internalfaculties? His answers to these questionswill teach you how to interrogate or ex-periment with your subject, or whetheryou should at all or not, before he becomesclairvoyant.

17. Let him sleep as long as he conve-niently can, but wake him when he de-sires to be awaked, or seems fatigued--first impressing him not to rememberwhat he has experienced, after awaking

18. Awake your subject, standing be-hind his chair, by passing your hands up-wards, from his knees and arms to hihead, and by bringing up your fingers

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oriskly before his features, at the sametime telling him to awake. Do notarouse him suddenly, nor hurry him, bygiving him any small number of minutesto awake in. Give him his own time.

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1. Ascending passes are not magnetic;in carrying your hands up, therefore,close the fingers, and bring them up in asemicircle.

2. It is both wasteful and unfavorableto employ muscular force in directingyour hands. The best magnetizers arethose who are the most gentle in theirmovements.

3. The fingers should be apart in theimparting process, and the tips, and notthe balls, convey and direct the fluid.

4. It is highly advantageous to mag.netize your subject at the same hour orhours each day.

5. If the action excites pain in anypart, concentrate it towards that part, in

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order to draw it away afterwards. If itcause heat or aching in the head, attractit to the knees,

6. Once in awhile, magnetize your sub-ject standing; and make passes from be-fore his face, and from the back of hisbead, to the floor, commencing with hold-mg your palms awhile upon his templesar eyes.

7. There is a magnetic force in the verywords and tones of the Operator after thecommunication is well established. Youmay often effect a desired result by tell-ing your subject that he will act, feel, im-agine, see, hear, taste, smell, or say, thusand so, after you have counted seven,twelve, thirty, or any reasonable number.

8. When the first sittings do not ob.tam the magnetic sleep, it is unnecessaryto restore or take off the imparted fluidby the reverse passes, unless your sub.ject requests.

9. To put another in communicationwith your subject, let them take handz

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10. Magnetizing water, medicines, hand-kerchiefs, jewels, etc., is a very speedyand simple thing, consisting only in hand2ing, fingering, or blowing, while you alsoengage your will.

TO MAGNETIZE FOR DISEASES.

1. In local affections, accumulate andconcentrate the current upon the part,and afterwards draw it off towardsthe extremities. Sometimes you mayincrease the pain at first, but you willsoothe it entirely away in drawing off.

2. The fingers united to a point concen-trate the action upon the part towardswhich they are directed.

3. Magnetized wands of glass and steel.of spindle shape, are quite advantageousto concentrate the action upon a particu-lar organ or point. Such wands shouldnot be handled except by their properowners.

4. Habituate yourself to magnetizingvarious secondary objects for the sick,

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that serve to accelerate the action, such asbandages, some kinds of diet, but espe-cially water.

5. Except in rheumatic, bruised, burn-ed, or such like local affections, and forall chronic and acute diseases, and forsurgical operations, magnetize by the reg.ular method the whole system, and in-

duce sleep. The magnetic lethargy willbe highly restorative and refreshing, andthe patient will be soon likely to proveclairvoyant, and give valuable advice ofhis own.

6. Very impervious patients, if it isthought necessary to put them asleep,may be magnetized by A CHAIN of per-sons, if a good one can be formed.

TO MAGNETIZE BY A CHAIN OF PERSONS.

1. Though there are some objectionsto this method of developing subjects,yet it does not seem that they are ofsufficient weight to warrant the entireneglect of so obviously powerful a means

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Sf magnetizing strong and healthy per-Sons.

2. Any number of healthy persons,from six upwards, of rather congenialnatures, and of either or both sexes, or ofvarious ages, may unite themselves intoa Compound Human Battery for mag-netizing the more susceptible personsamong them. There ought to be organ-Ized an Association in every city and vil-lage in our country, for the purpose oftesting the powers of Magnetism, and ex-ploring all sciences through it, by thislabor-saving means of developing goodclairvoyants.

3. Let the party, members, or audienceassembled, sit round in a circle, and takeeach other's hands, by the thumbs. Letthem sit very quiet and motionless, in themost easy manner, with their eyes closed,or directed to the centre of the floor be-tween them, and let them resolve to giveway for at least thirty minutes to theconsequences,

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4. Sooner or later some one of the Chainwill begin to manifest the soporific effectsof magnetic attraction, by an involuntaryfalling of the head. When this is dis-tinctly observed, then let the eyes andattention of all the circle be directed tothe drowsy one. Then, presently, let oneof the circle, with one hand of the personson each side of him on his shoulders, pro-ceed to magnetize the demi-sleeper, firstby the laying on of hands, secondly, by

demagnetization. If this be properly con-

ducted, in all probability you will have

some good experiments mn clairvoyance,after a few sittings, and be able to exam-ine diseases by the subject.

5. The minds and attention of the

company may be occupied from the be-

ginning with one who may be previouslyhit upon for the subject, with similar re-

sults. Let the best-endowed Magnetizer

of the circle be chosen for the Special.6. The ring may be arranged in such a

iaanner that both the subject and Special

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can be in the middle, and yet in com-

mumcation with the Chain. Various use-

ful suggestions for the practice of Chain

Magnetism will occur in employing i&

CIAPTER IV.#MIS CELLA NEO US OBSER VA TIONS.

1. A FAIR TRIAL upon many perfectly

healthy, vigorous persons, to make themsubjects, is not less than thirty hour-sittings, of twenty-four hours or less in-termission. Almost any individual maybe thrown into the magnetic state by aperson of average magnetic force andskill, with perseverance, in a regularcourse of as many as thirty sittings.

2. But with the average of persons youwould be likely to select, one to ten sit-tings will accomplish the sleep.

3. The magnetic virtue develops it-self by practice, and a person employs itwith more facility and success when hehas acquired the faculty of exerting it.

4. However long it may take to subduemagnetically the nervous system of a

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subject, he can in future, for some timeafterwards, be magnetized in a singlesitting.

5. You can act equally well upon thosewho believe, and upon those who do notbelieve, in Magnetism. It suffices if asubject only yield himself passively,making no resistance.

6. A person cannot be magnetized tosleep if he exert resistance physically.Neither can subjects be harshly dealtwith against their will, as they have adouble power to resist.

7. No universal exterior symptoms areknown by which it may be positively de-termined whether a person is in the mag-netic sleep, or feigning it. You can onlyjudge from his language, and doings.You have to risk his honesty.

8. Children have the power of magnet-izing very well, when they have arrivedat the age of seven, and have witnessedthe operation. We would that everychild of the rising generation could be

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taught the importance of Magnetism,and the habitual practice of it.

9. With invalids, and otherwise susceptible persons, and with already de-veloped subjects, the processes are com-paratively indifferent; one will succeednearly as well as another. Do not henceconclude that, with difficult subjects, themode is equally immaterial. There ismuch to choose, both for efficacy andspeed, in some proposed processes overothers. And, allowing the worst fortough subjects, and uncongenial magnet-izers, we are persuaded that the methodunfolded in this book is the most efficientyet discovered. It is important that aMagnetist should pursue oN invariablemethod.

10. Expect not to make any new sub-ject, and especially a healthy one, clair-voyant immediately. That is a state farbeyond the primary stages of the magneticcondition, and sometimes requires a hun-dred sittings to obtain.

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11. There have been distinguished sixdegrees of the magnetic state, betweennatural sleep and death. Some cases ofthe latter, wherein the whole six stagesare passed through in a few moments, com-pared with some cases of lingering disease,in which months have been consumed inpassing them, will illustrate how certaincircumstances will develop clairvoyanceimmediately in a few subjects, while mnmany it is attained only by a series ofslow degrees.

12. Those who from interior influencesdescend voluntarily into the clairvoyantstate, are not so entirely exempt from ex-ternal and sympathetic influence as thosewhose bodies are almost wholly sustainedby a Magnetizer.

13. It is a matter of doubt with Mag-aetists whether they impart to, or ab-stract from, the subject, the magneticessence. The former is most generallybelieved, and there are direct passages ofScripture to prove it. (Mark v. 30; Luke


vi. 19: xviii. 46.) Also, it is argued, wesurely do not magnetize water, glass, etc.,by abstractng any properties from them.

14. We contend that the descendingand drawing process which all Magnet-izists make use of, prove that there is anabstraction of the fluid, as well as animpartation. But the latter precedes theformer, and the former naturally takesplace, mn its application to disease, afterthe latter. We first charge the system,and the superabundance of the sensorialvapor draws away with itself, in passingoff, a portion of the wakeful sufficiency.

15. Cavillers at the reality of Magnet-ism are not disposed to allow (admittingthat a person may be magnetized in anyinstance) that there can exist any suchthing as mnfluencing, oontrolhng, or coun-teracting causes. "If such a one can bemesmerized, as you say (say they), whynot I? Q tried, but might as well haveattempted to mesmerize a meeting-houselI tell you it's all humbug !"-"It's all non

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sense," says another; "for I tried it oncefor half an hour on young Bob, and whenI thought him asleep, he haw-haw'd rightout." "Go to grass with your clarvoys-ing," says a third; "If she could look int&that feller's innerds, she could guess howmany shillen' shads old Jerry's got left!""Imposition and collusion most villanous "'shouts another; "if your subject could thuscorrectly repeat those nineteen passageshanded you while you read them to your-self, some deception is now evident, for intins one she fails altogether." "It madesuch an one worse," says a fifth; "it's aW-ful dangerous!" "All sham!" says thenext; "I bored my penknife into his eyewhen no one was looking, and hewinked!"

16. Why is it ever said, " I believe inMagnetism; I have seen it; but Clairvoy-ance I can't go-it must be all jug-glery." Suppose a person should say, "Ibelieve m Mathematics,; Arithmetic I un-derstand, Geometry and Algebra I can see


a little into. But hang Trigonometry andCalculus! they're all fog! sham sciencesaltogether! all moonshine! but Mathe-matics is noble! " What would you thinkof such logic? Just so oblique are theywho are convinced of some phenomenain Magnetism, but, because they havenot seen, deny that any higher classes ofresults in the same science, than theyhave witnessed, were ever obtained.

17. Many medical men who have be-come acquainted with the vast efficacyand potency of Human Magnetism, are,by various bug-bear means, striving tofrighten the unprofessional, the people,out of the practice of it; realizing howdetrimental to the spoils and systemof the craft a general knowledge of itamong families and the unlearned willprove.

18. Let not this deter you from study-ing and practising the science assiduous-ly. The dangers attending it are not adozenth part of those of the common


pharmaceutical practice. They are alsoinfinitely more easily avoidable.

19. All who can, should become bothsubjects and magnetizers. If you willonce be magnetized, come what may,accidents, sickness, troubles-great bene-fits, clairvoyant, perhaps, as well as mag-netic, can almost directly be brought to

your relief.20. Those who have a thirst for knowl-

edge and the diffusion of it, who con-

veniently can, should educate and bring

up a young Clairvoyant, for moral, secu-lar, and scientific purposes, and as a guideand teacher. The cultivating of valuable

subjects for literary, business, and scien-tific objects, will soon constitute one of

the most honorable, delightful and lucra-tive professions.

21. From ample observation of thecapacities of various Clairvoyants, I amconvinced that public journals will one

day be partly conducted through the aidof qualified and experienced Seers illu-


mined by magnetic means. The differentgeniuses of various subjects will be soughtand well trained. Some will be of anature suitable to explore intelligencefrom every part of the world daily.Others will be respectively adapted to theediting of literary, political, commercial,and mechanical journals or books; others,again, to mathematics,chemistry, geology,zoology, agriculture, astronomy, meta-phyics, medicine, physilogy, history.

22. But there will be gifted Clairvoy-ants for public lecturing on the grand sub-jects of the universe, before immense con-gregations, even sooner. At this verytime, some superior minds are preparingto enter the field in this splendid capacity.An age of gorgeous revelations is aboutto have advent upon the earth.*

23. Let physicians, metaphysicians, menof science, and humanitarians unite tostudy the laws by which the action ofAnimal Magnetism is governed, in all its

* This was written in 847--P as.


ramifications, and they will frame a sciencewhich will vastly contribute to the in-crease of knowledge, to the exhaustionof earthly ills, and to the cause of uni-versal social elevain;.

CHAPTER V.

SOMNAMB ULISM AND CLAIR VO YANC .

1. In this state the circulation is regular,the heat is equal throughout the body,and sensibility is fully preserved.

2. The lucidity of Somnambulism isnot clairvoyant, except to some degree minthe higher stages of it, which, though itis sometimes manifested in a surprisingmanner, is variable, and often relative toa few things only.

3. The lucidity of this state consistsmerely in the capacity of the brain to seeand hear, while the external organs ofsight and hearing are wholly closed.Hard walls, the human body, etc., arenearly transparent to the Somnambulist,and he can read small print in the dark,or while a black cravat envelopes his eyes.Some travel with much facility, anywhere

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on earth, and can conjecture a little.Their natural powers are not otherwiseincreased--they are incapable of Phreno-Magnetic excitements-and of obeyingunexpressed volitions of the Operator.

4. Mere Somnambulists have not theslightest degree of mental communzcationwith the Magnetizer. A high conditionof the Magnetic state is always indicatedwhen the subject can read a word, num-ber, or idea in the mind of any other in-dividual. This faculty is, indeed, thefirst indication, and the best test of genu-ine, independent Clairvoyance. To per-ceive the thoughts, the motions of themznd, is a far different and nobler capac-Ity than to see into the skull and brain.

5. The seat of internal vision is differ.ent in various subjects, and various atdifferent times. Sometimes it is atCausality, sometimes at the eplgastrmum,sometimes at the temples (where Buchan-an says is an organ of Somnolence). The

same author affirms that there is an organ

54 sOMNAMBULlAM---LAIRVOYANCE.

of Psycho-sense or Mind-vision in allpersons, just under Form and Size, whichaids Clairvoyance.

6. Somnambulists see many thingswhich no person in the ordinary statecould conjecture; and they do not per-ceive other things which another wouldnotice at first glance. This imperfectcondition is sometimes mistaken for Clair-voyance.

7. The Magnetizer can often impressupon his subject an idea or resolution forhis good, which will unconsciously influ-ence him in the natural state. Herein is

t cure for intemperance and many badJabits, as you can frequently make thesubject loathe what he could hardly dowithout before.

8. When the subject is far advanced,he can be operated upon by his Magnet-izer at astonishing distances, even some-times when the time is not agreed uponbetween them.

9. It is only in degrees far superior toSomnambulism, where the manner of the

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subject's speech is so changed, and hisstyle of expression so much exalted abovethe ordinary, that you can implicitly con-fide in all his utterances. In this elevatedstate, his goodness of heart overflowsevery other sentiment, and no pecuniaryinducement can tempt him to employ hisnew faculties for mercenary ends. Hisdiction is elegant and precise, yet easy,pure, and simple. His manner is unim-passioned, without enthusiasm, and inef-fably tranquil, yet his tones and wordsare inimitably impressive. Having a dis-tinct view of all he speaks, he proceedswith an entire conviction of the realityof what he says. There is an entire ab-sence of the passions and opinions bywhich he is governed in his ordinarystate, and even of all acquired ideas andtalents; and though he can recollect themat pleasure, yet he attaches to them littleimportance. His judgment is quick andcorrect, accompanied by an intimate con-viction. He feels within himself a new

56 80MNAMBtTLISM---CLAIRVOYANCE.

light, whose rays are darted with an all-searching thoroughness upon all that ex-cites within him an interest; and the im-pressions and relations from without donot reach him.*

10. It is sweet, it is grateful, to comein possession of one more great proof of

* The author has been personally acquainted with buttwo cases of Clairvoyance so perfect as to be applicable tothis description--M. LEON, of New Orleans a French lad,under the care of M. Coulin; and Mr. A. J. DAVIs, of thiscity to whom any description of this kind would not beadequate. There have been, and are, however, a fewothers who have attained a similar perfection. The worldwill shortly be apprised of a triumph of Clairvoyance,through the celebrated Mr. Davis, which millions will betotally unprepared for. During the past year. this unedn-cated, unsophisticated, and amiable young man has beendelivering, verbally, day by day, a comprehensive wellplanned, and extraordinary Boox-relating to the vastquestions of the age, to the physical sciences, to Nature,in all her infinite ramifications, to Man, in his innumerablemodes of existence; to Gon, in the unfathomable abyssesof His Love, Power and Wisdom. No human author, inany department of literature or science, has ever electrifiedmankind to the degree that the eloquent, yet simple rea,sonings, the lofty and sublime disclosures will, that con-etitute this great compend of universal philosophy. Per-haps over four thousand different persons who have wit-aessed him in his medical examinations, or in his scientile

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the personality, and superioJrity, and in.destructibility of the human soul, bymeans which directly open and unfold tous some of its noble faculties. It is goodto have one more vast reason for expect-ing a glorious and progressive eternal ex-istence; that a wise Providence guidesthe reins of all things; that all are chil-dren of a common Parent, and ought toact unitedly in the affairs of life, for thegeneral good; and that the good whohave preceded us on earth are combinedin a superior sphere, for working out theredemption and harmony of society.

liscourses, live to testify to the astonishing exaltation ofmind possessed by Mr. Davis in his abnormal states. Thetwo new planets of our system, recently conjectured, weredescribed in Mr. Davis's manuscripts fourteen months ago.I have seen him discoursing in a most angelic manner formore than four hours in succession. The above, his fraiand last work, is, I believe, nearly ready to be issued.

[The above note was written in 1847.., Ps.]

CAPTEI VI.

CO UNSELS AND CA UTIONS.

1. Do not suffer your Somnambulist tobe touched by any one who is not incommunication with him; and by thosein communication only very gently.

2. The readiest way to destroy a sub-ject's lucidity, and perhaps produce con-vulsions, is to handle him roughly.

3. Avoid magnetizing him in presenceof many persons. Clairvoyants are notonly affected by physical emanations, orthe effluvia of living bodies, but also, toa surprising degree, by the dispositionstowards him of those around, by theircharacters and caprices.

4. Fatigue him not with experiments,especially trifling ones; and fail not toleave him frequently to himself, to get

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accustomed to his new condition, and totollect his thoughts.

5. You should not magnetize aftermeals of yours or his, within an hour.To be a strong Magnetist, you ought notto perform much hard manual labor.

6. The projection of the vital fluidfrom the system occasions more or less

weakness. Under most favorable circum-stances, you cannot safely magnetize morethan four or five times in one day.

7. When the subject or yourself aretoo warm, perspiring uncomfortably, donot magnetize. Cold, clear weather is de-cidedly the most favorable for the mag-netic action. In damp and heavy statesof the atmosphere it is useless to magnet-ize-your subject will be lucid only byflashes.

8. Should you magnetize a patient who

has any contagious disease, avoid imme-

diate contact as much as possible, and em.

ploy your will and hands to throw the

fluid from you.

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0. Do not force upon your Clairvoyantthe investigation of any matter to whichhe seems decidedly disinclined, or occupyhim with anything to which he has aver.sion and repugnance, or which is entirelyalien to his degree or genius. You cannotthus coerce a subject without causinginjury to his cerebral system. Let thecourse of Nature predominate, and yoursubject will prove more valuable in theend.

10. Except in some obvious cases, it iscertainly better not to repeat to yoursubject, when awake, of what he mayhave said or done while sleeping. Guardagainst establishing between the ideasof the waking state and those of wake-sleeping, a relation inverse of the naturalorder. Otherwise, the faculties of eachstate would be equally influenced.

11. Use guarded expressions of appro-bation to Somnambulists, that you maynot excite their vanity, and you maysave them from a host of illusions.

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12. If you wish to perfect your subject

in any one class of investigations, do not

distract his attention often and hastilyfrom one theme to another, nor withmany.

13. If you are much accustomed to in-terrogate your subject (and there is noreason why you should not, if you do itwith discretion), take care not to frameyour questions in such a manner as tosuggest replies which he can make with-out reflection, through unguardedness, orthe desire of pleasing.

14. Remember, always, that the nat-ural, and only legitimate field for the ex-ercise of Magnetism and Clairvoyance, istheir application to suffering, to ignorance,to the increase of human knowledge andhappiness. Expect, then, to experiencemany disappointments if you experimentmerely for the gratification of curiosity.

15. There is danger in acquiring a habitof magnetizing too rapidly; also in mag-netizing too near to the persons of very

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susceptible and nervous subjects of

patients.16. Do not require extraordinary things

of your subject, nor put him to tests be-yond his progressed capacity. Designnever for a moment to direct him, or youwill turn aside his faculties from theirnatural sphere, and transport him at onceinto a field of ignes fatci. Howevergreat the power of your will, you cannotforce him to see correctly beyond thebounded circle in which he is placed;though by gentle and proper means youmay constantly enlarge that circle. Youwill obscure the Clairvoyance he pos-sesses, if you mingle too much your ideasand conjectures with his.

17. You ought to have the most con-clusive evidence of your Clairvoyant'sperfect attainment of "the fifth degree,"before you can always rely with con-fidence upon his prescriptions, his pre-visional foresights, his philosophical hasrangues, his moral exhortations, his polit-

OOVNES t AND CArTIONS. 8

ical discourses, or his historical relationsImperfectly developed Clairvoyants are always to be reckoned upon and allowedfor. They would not willingly deceiveyou; but they depend upon the firstsensations they feel, or upon their ex-ternal memory, and from various causesdo not or cannot consider intently andcritically.

18. Many early subjects are prone toguessing when their lucidity fails them.Cure them of this by telling them toacknowledge frankly, and you will not beoffended if they feel an obscureness con-cerning anything asked them. Instructthem never to express an unqualifiedopinion unless they have well considered,and never to say anything that requiresmending by a second or third examina-tion; but to refuse speaking, rather, ifthey are sensible of inefficiency.

19. Great danger may ensue if yousuffer yourself to be frightened, or to getetoited by the mastery of any passion,

64 ADVICE TO SUBJECTS.

during your subject's sleep. If there isnervous agitation in your subject, or anyother crisis, be resolutely at ease, andstanding at a little distance, exert yourwill and hands mildly to accomplish yourdesire.

20. Never interrupt a treatment com-menced, or omit to sustain a crisis whichhas been excited, that requires the con-

tinued aid of Magnetism to terminate itsuccessfully.

21. Vex not your subject with puzzlinganatomical or scientific questions. Hemust reach a very superior state beforehe will be competent to discourse famil-

Siarly and technically on such subjects,and then he will be disposed to do itspontaneously.

ADVICE TO SUBJECTS.

1. Have but one Magnetizer, unless

there be several days' interval betweentheir trials. The promiscuous mixing

and crossing of the emanating essences of

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several persons in one subject's brain,retard and impair the development.

2. Have no one for a Magnetizerwhom you cannot look upon as a friend.Though if you be a patient he mayreceive fees, yet be careful to select aMagnetizer who can sustain the relationin confidence and friendship.

3. Never allow a person to magnetizeyou while in a state of irritation or over-anxiety; or when anything is going onwithin sight or hearing to annoy you.

4. If you come under the manipulationof a diseased or unhealthy Magnetizer, hewill assuredly, ere long, communicate toyou his complaint, and injure himself,too.

5. Permit not yourself to be magnet.ized by any one who may be repulsiveto you, or who has antipathy towardsyou.

6. It is well for a person to knowwhat the character and principles of hisMagnetizer are before he entrusts him-

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self to his charge; for the Magnetizer willat length exert a moral influence capableof modifying the temper and sentimentsto a remarkable degree.

CHAPTER VII.

MAG NETISM AS A CURA TIVE.

1. CHRIST just as imperatively com-

manded his apostles to heal the sick, ashe did to have faith in and preach thegospel. We cannot believe that he in-tended the healing powers for physicalsuffering which he taught his disciplesshould become annihilated, and onlywhat was applicable to the moral andfuture life continue.

2. There is no species of suffering towhich Magnetism has ever been properlyapplied, which has not repeatedly provedits soothing efficacy and radical curativepower. It is much easier for the bigotedand unacquainted to deny this statement,than it will be for them to disprove thehard-twisted facts, or show its falsity bypractical experiment of their own.

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3. Magnetism acts upon the whole sys.temrn. It seconds the efforts which na-ture is making to banish all pernicious-ness from the constitution. It soothesby re-establishing the equilibrium; itstrengthens by recalling the vital essencesinto the organs where there is deficiency.

4. Even in organic and hereditarycases which it cannot cure, Magnetismquiets the nerves, bestows strength, re-stores sleep and appetite, exhausts pains,diminishes swellings, and imparts cheer-fulness and tranquillity.

5. Magnetism is far better suited todiseases of the eye and ear, to paralysis,to rheumatics, to all species of hystericaffections, to epilepsy, ulcers, obstruc-tions, some kinds of fevers, etc., than anyother agent. To these, especially, it is afar more valuable species of treatmentthan the Electrical, Botanical, Hydro-pathical, Homceopathical, or Allopathical.Not many years will pass before it willbe generally acknowledged the sovereign

PATHOLOGICAL MAGNETISM. 6O

remedy of all known remedies-of a moreversatile scope of application--and inefficacy second to none, superior to all.

6. It is considered a promotive thingto impart the magnetic property to allmedicines, by much handling them. Itis possible that many kinds of patentpills, worthless in themselves, have beeninvested with no little virtue in under.going the manual manufacture. Thismay throw some hght upon the philoso-phy of restoring the drowned, etc., bymuch magnetical rubbing.

7. The gr eat secret in the making ofthe Homaeopathc infinitesimal tinctures,as taught by Hahnemann, and he admittedeven the chief virtue of them, consistsfar less m the quantity or nature of themedicine or the sugar, than in their be-ing well rolled in the hands, by the fitn.gers, before phialling. It seems to havebeen known, somewhat, to the founderof that system, that a certain healthprinciple might be concentrated by the


living hands into small globules, which,when inwardly taken, is always power-fully attracted to the diseased part. Thisis TRUE: and the fact may serve to illus-trate a common opinion, that bread ismuch wholesomer, the more thoroughlyit is kneaded by the health-giving hands.

8. The headache and toothache aresometimes easily dissipated by envelop-ing the head with a magnetized bandage.

9. A magnetized object, such as a goldfinger-ring, ear jewels, a breast medallion,or any such amulet, serve to repel dele-terious foreign influences.

10. Magnetized water acts upon inter-nal diseases in an astonishing manner. Itcarries the magnetism directly to the af-fected organs. Very few, even amongthe most zealous practitioners of Magnet-ism, are acquainted with the marvellouseffects it produces. Few medicines, in-deed, are even more powerful than mag-netic water in certain cases.

11. The action of magnetized water is

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,ot so potent upon those who have notbeen magnetized.

12. Magnetized socks produce a warmthof the feet which can scarcely be pro-duced by other means.

13. A person in the habit of magnetiz-ing who has a local pain-for example, ina limb, the stomach, or an eye--can re-lieve it, if he be elsewise in good health,by attentively employing upon himselfthe magnetic process.

14. Clairvoyants take much interest inpatients submitted to them, and will fre-quently magnetize them with zeal.

CLAIRVOYANT AIDS TO PHYSICIANS.

1. When you present a patient to yourClairvoyant do not allow him to say any-thing about his complaint, or to ask anyquestions until the Clairvoyant has ex-amined and told his story; then it will bethe patient's turn to interrogate.

2. if the Clairvoyant can describe withgreat accuracy the character, location,


symptoms, and causes of the ailment ina stranger-patient; if he can even seewhat remedies have been employed, andtell their effects; if he can inform you ofmany such things, which it would be al-most miraculous for any wakeful personto divine, his clairvoyance is evidentlygood, and his advice or prescription is tobe relied upon.

3 The faculty of prescribing properremedies or directions depends upon amuch loftier mental condition than thatof merely seeing the location of a swell-ing or pain, and is seldom united with it.When the former is imperfect, it is sub-ject to influences from the wakeful mem-ory or impressions.

4. Good Clairvoyants carefully distin-guish between what they deem them-selves sure of, what is only probable tothem, and what they know nothing aboutmore than we do. They refuse to give aconsultation when they do not feel them-selves possessed of sufficient clairvoyance.

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5. When your subject prescribes forhimself or another a remedy which ap-pears unsuitable, state your objections tohim. Perhaps his advice is given withreference to some other affected part ofthe system than the main. Engage himto examine the state of each functionseparately and critically, so as to under-stand the case thoroughly.

6. First and last there have been manyClairvoyants who have attained thatvery refined degree of sensibility and per-ception in which the very atmospheres ofboth living and inanimate objects can bedistinguished. By a superior effort, theseare capable of describing the physicaland other conditions of persons who maybe indefinitely distant, by means of afresh lock of hair, or some other clue by

which they can gain a communication withthe patient. As the wondrous accomplish-ments of Magnetism become generallyknown, such invaluable Examiners mustmultiply to a great extent.

74 ACCOMPL_1f nIENTS FOR PRACTICE.

7. Permit but a small number of path-ological consultations to be had withyour Clairvoyant per day, nor trust tohim the care of directing the treatmentof many patients at the same time. Hecan hardly take the same interest in all,nor sufficiently identify himself alter-nately with each, to do them justice.

8. Do not put your subject to thesevere test of examining with hair, if thepatient can be brought, or if he canvisit. You will probably tax him seriouslyenough by having many examinations;do not make them, then, unnecessarilylaborious, nor cherish an insatiable curi-osity for new marvels.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR THE PRACTICE.

All men can magnetize, but somepossess the power in a superior degree.Persons of strong, cultured minds, refinedfeelings, beneficent disposition, etc., suc-ceed the best.

Good health is the first of requisites in

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all. A firm, energetic, and tranquilcharacter, together with a facility ofconcentrating the attention, and a perse-vering, patient, confident fortitude areperhaps the next.

The magnetic power is an invisibleenergy different from the strength thatremoves burdens--a power of which weonly know the existence and measure inourselves by trial.

This virtue exists in the same degreein both sexes; but women ought to bepreferred as magnetizers of women, forvarious reasons. Males, however, maybe equally well magnetized by either sex.

The best magnetizer for a woman, allother things being equal, is her husband;for a husband, his wife; for a young lady,her mother or sister; for a young man,any of his family. The ties of blood con-tribute by a physical sympathy to estab-lish the communication.

The acquirements that are chiefly ad-vantageous to the Magnetist are an ac-

'76 REMARKS ON EXPERIMENTS.

quaintance with Physiology and Phre-nology.

REMARKS ON EXPERIMENTS.

Lecturers on Magnetism are frequentlyunfortunate in not eliciting such experi-ments from their subjects as are satisfac-tory to sceptical observers, for want of

point. People will not believe in Mag-netism merely from hearing a subjectsing, or "jump Jim Crow," at a touch, mo-tion, or command of the Magnetizer.Though such commonplace experimentsmay be real, they may also, the scepticvery well knows, be counterfeited by ex-pert persons. No trivial exhibitions ofthis class should ever be publicly given,where there are so many persons unac-quainted with the parties, as they incurmuch discredit to the cause.

Rather have occasional failures in thetrial of racy experiments, than to makepoor ones, and never miss. But you can-not produce interesting and convincing

REMARKS ON EXPERIMENTS. i7

experiments without advanced subjects.With such it is just as easy to elicit cleverand striking phenomena as miserableones.

Invite forward all who are sceptics inyour audience to take front seats, and ina prudent manner let those take a second-ary part in your experimenting. Do notbe afraid of too many avowing them-selves such, as you will charge the bal-ance, in honor, to remain, as you desire toconvince only those who consider thescience a delusion.

Now, if you wish to prove that youpossess a silent power over the muscles ofyour subject, call his attention, and thenask each of those gentleman in turn, toconvey to you on paper some particularmovement, attitude, or act, to be per-formed by the subject while you standmotionless away.

If you would have them know that yoursubject can see with his brain, instead ofhis eyes, and that he can even look into

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the human body, request him to tellsomething that each gentleman, one byone, as he rises, has in his pockets; alsoto tell what each of them ate for supper.

If you you would demonstrate that yoursubject can actually look into the verymind, do not merely assert it, but let eachof those sceptics in turn hand you anumber, a letter of the alphabet, a name,a word, or a subject, for you to think of,and then, while you distinctly picture it in

your mind, let your subject seek, and pro-nounce it, which he will soon do, if theword is not a strange one.

If you would convince them that Clair-

voyants can trace out things unknown tothem, put him in communication with eachof them in turn, and have him declarehis occupation, or something about hischaracter, residence, family, or some eventor incident of his life.

We can distinguish clearly betweenthe manifestations of Fous entirely dif-ferent Magnetic States. They may be

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called the Infatuated, the Somnambulic,the Paralytic, and the Clairvoyant. Thephenomena of the second and fourth haveall been noticed. We will speak brieflyof Infatuation and Paralysm.

This is the demi-somnambulic con-dition in which the Feeling, the Sight,the Hearing, the Taste, the Smell,the Belief, the Actions, and the Imagina-tion, may be deluded and fascinated inmany curious ways. Peculiar magnet-izers and peculiar subjects are necessaryto develop this state fully.

The capacities of subjects in theParalytic state are-insensibility to pain.- ability to distinguish pain, feelings,tastes, smells, etc., in those in communi-cation-to be phrenologically acted upon-- to have the members separately orwholly paralyzed to catalepsy-to havethem perform St. Vitus' dance-t havethe pulse varied from 20 to 160 a minute-- to have the strength and endurancevastly increased or diminished-to be at-

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tracted and repulsed-to foretell theweather, to transport their hearing, sight,etc., to a distance, and tell what is heard,seen, done or said, etc., afar off.

APPENDIX.

[The following is from the Cincinnati Medical Advancefor October. 1875.]

ANIMAL MAG NETISM AS A THERAPEUTICMEANS.

BY W. L. FLEMING, M. D.

Read before the IIomc ovathic Medical Society of theCounty of New York.

The term Animal Magnetism has been ap-plied to a subtle force existing in man, which,it was discovered during the last century, wascapable of producing upon certain persons, es-pecially somnambulists, effects similar to thoseproduced by the magnet; hence the name:Animal Magnetism.

Although much has been said and writtenupon the subject of Animal Magnetism, and itis generally admitted that such a power residesin man, yet there are not wanting those who,while laying claim to intelligence and learning,deny in toto the existence of any such force.

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82 ANIMAL MAGNETISM.

Not only are the deniers of Animal Magnetism to be found among the people (as dis-tinguished from the schools of Science andMedicine), but among scientists as well; andby far too frequently in the ranks of the medi-cal profession, to whom of all others the sub-ject most strongly commends itself. This isnot as it should be, for medical science has notyet attained such a degree of perfection as torender unnecessary the investigation of stillfurther means of cure; far from it: and it is aduty the medical profession owes, not only toitself, but to those whose health and whoselives are confided to its care, that every meanswhich promises to contribute to the greater effi-ciency of our present therapeia, should be care-fully and diligently investigated, and, if provedworthy, should be accorded its rightful place.

Why the prejudices of the medical profes-sion should, for so long a time, have deprivedit of the aid of this most valuable agent in thecure of disease, is a question most difficult to an-swer; yet such is the fact; and it redounds littleto the credit of the profession, that, to this day,so far as it is concerned, the subject remainsuninvestigated. Nay, more; when the subjectis broached, or the physician is consulted bysome confiding patient as to the advisability of

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employing this means it is generally dismissedwith a sneer and the usual epithets of humbug,delusion, and imagination. This manner ofdealing with a subject of such vast importanceto the sick certainly is not scientific. It is notrational. Is it thus we receive the discoveryof a new drug, or some new method of opera-tion in surgery? Not by any means. Thedrug immediately goes through the provingprocess, and the surgeon anxiously awaits theopportunity to test the efficacy of the newmethod: but this force, which is potent wheredrugs fail and which promises in many casesto dispense with the necessity of surgical ope-ration, is neglected and ridiculed, when itshould be gladly received and cherished.

There is also another class of deniers, who,while they employ the Animal Magnetic forcein the treatment of disease, ascribe the valuableresults accruing therefrom entirely to themethod of application, namely, Manipulation.They claim that the benefits derived from thistherapeutic means are solely due to the mechan-ical effects of the treatment, and scout the ideaof the action of a vital element. While manip-ulation is, of itself, undoubtedly beneficial,yet, by this means alone, we cannot accountfor the very marked effects so often produced


by this treatment; and where mechanical forcealone is employed as a remedial agent, as in themovement cure, where machinery takes theplace of the hands, though the action is muchmore profound and thorough, I have yet tolearn that it has accomplished such valuableresults as have been obtained by the hands.But aside from all this, there is ample proofto show that to manipulation alone is not dueall of the beneficial effects of this treatment.I have myself treated many cases of an inflam-matory character, including acute rheumatism,where ordinary manipulation was at first im-possible, owing to extreme sensitiveness; butwhere, by holding the hands lightly over theinflamed part, the sensitiveness has been gradu-ally diminished until full manipulatory actioncould be carried on with but little or no suffer-ing, and, I am happy to add, in nearly every suchcase, so far as my memory serves me, the reliefhas been prompt and permanent. I have fre-quently dispersed boils, and in one case a largecarbuncle, situated in the popliteal space, andwhich had progressed well toward suppuration,by holding the hands upon them, and usingvery gentle manipulation. In one instance,where a patient had submitted to a surgicaloperation for the removal of a duplicate thumb,

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and was suffering intense pain, I succeeded inentirely relieving the pain for six or eighthours, by slowly passing my hand, without con-tact, two or three times, from the thumb towardthe elbow; when, at the end of this time, thepain returned, I repeated the operation, andthe patient suffered no more during the healingprocess. Again: in the case of a phthisicalpatient, who had long suffered from an obsti-nate constipation, and had been in the habit ofusing enormous doses of purgatives to obtaineven temporary relief, I simply administered,once a day, magnetized water; and in two orthree days a natural and easy movement of thebowels was obtained; a condition of thingswhich the patient had not before experiencedfor several years. My method of magnetizingthe water was as follows" I held the glass con-taining the water (as much as the patient de-sired to drink at one time) in the palm of theleft hand, and placing my right hand over anda little above it, with the fingers converged andpointing down, maintained this position fromthree to five minutes, when the water was suf-ficiently charged to be administered.

And still another instance I can give youfrom my own experience, clearly demonstratingthe existe cve of some peculiar force, capable

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of exerting a powerful influence upon thehuman body, without the intervention of activemanipulation

A gentleman who was visiting at my house,and who had himself experimented consider-ably with the Animal Magnetic force, at my

request permitted me to try an experiment uponhim, which I will here relate. Desiring to as-

certain to what extent the nerves could be

affected by this force alone, and if It were possi-ble by this means to produce local antesthesia,I placed him in as easy a position as possible inone chair, with his leg upon another directly

in front, and in such a position that there would

be no under pressure at any one point. I then

made a few passes over the boot and clothing,without touching, from the foot toward the

body, and then, with my hands encircling as

nearly as possible the limb above the knee, but

without contact, I concentrated my will upon

this point, with the intent to cut off if possible

the nerve supply from below this point. After

holding the hands thus for a few minutes, he

complained of a prickling sensation, which

continued for a short time and then ceased. Icontinued holding the hands in the same posi

tion for about fifteen minutes, at the end of

which time the leg was completely antesthetized.


There was neither feeling nor motion in it; andit remained in this condition until I made a fevwpasses downward, when the tingling processwas gone through with again, and the leg wasgradually restored to its normal condition.

Is there nothing in all this, then, to prove theaction oi some force independent of mechan-Ical effect? It certainly seems so to me, andI could give many more instances, within myown experience, all tending to demonstrate thisfact, and enough evidence of this kind couldbe obtained from others, if needed, to fill avolume But the strongest and clearest evi-dence in support of the existence of AnimalMagnetism, and that the phenomena resultingfrom its application are due to a fluid or im-ponderable power (or influence), is to be foundin the researches of Baron von Reichenbach onMagnetism. etc. The testimony of this authorupon this point, from his name and standing asa scientist, cannot fail to carry with it greatweight Dr. Gregory, the English translatorand editor of his work, In his preface, says ofhim

"The qualifications of the author for suchan inquiry are of the very highest kind. Hepossesses a thorough scientific education, com-bmed with extensive knowledge. His life hI


been devoted to science, and to its applic*_knto the practical purposes of mankind. He isknown as a distinguished improver of the ironmanufacture in his native country, Austria.He is a thorough practical chemist, and by hiswell known researches on tar, has acquired avery high position. But in geology, physicsand mineralogy he has been equally active.In particular, he is the highest living authorityon the subject of meteorites or aerolites, ofwhich remarkable bodies he possesses a mag-nificent collection. Of his knowledge on thissubject good use is made in this work.

" But these are not the least of his qualifica-tions. He has a turn of mind observing, mi-nute, accurate, patient and persevering in a raredegree. All his previous researches bear tes-timony to this. and at the same time prove thathe possesses great ingenuity and skill in de-vising and performing experiments; great sa-gacity in reflection on the results; and, moreimportant than all, extreme caution in adoptingconclusions; reserve in propounding theories;and conscientiouness in reporting his observa-tions. He has been found fault with for toogreat minuteness of detail; but this fault, ifin such matters it be a fault, arises from hisintense love of truth and accuracy; a quality


which, when applied to such researches as thepresent, becomes invaluable and cannot easilybe pushed to excess.

It therefore appears that Berzelius, whowell knew the value of the author's labors wasright in saying that the investigation could notbe in better hands. II ving myself been familiar with the author's writings, and in fre-quent correspondence with himself for twentyyears, I have here ventured to add my humbletestimony to that of the great Swedish philoso-pher."

I shall now proceed to give you the evidenceof Reichenbach upon this force:

"And now our investigation has brought usto the portal of what is called Amnimal Magnet-ism. This noli me tangere we shall now be ableto seize. When I made a few passes down(with a magnet) the person of Mile. Sturman,from head to foot, the became insensible, andwas attacked by spasms, generally rigid. Whey

I performed many passes with my large rock cryata the result was the same. But I could alsoproduce the same effect by ussng, instead of the

magnet or the crystal, my hands atone. Thepeculiar force (we shall call it crystallne) found

both sn magnets and crystals, must therefore ale

resaide in my hands."


" In order to test this more fully, I tried theexperiments which I shall presently describe.If this were the case, the force residing in myhand must produce all those effects which thecrystalline force is capable of producing, as de-scribed in the preceding treatise; I could conelude as to difference or similarity, according tothe degree of resemblance in the properties ob-served. It was, first of all, necessary to ascer-tain whether there existed a coincidence, andto what extent, between the action of the crys-tals on the healthy or diseased sensitivenerve, and that of the human hand on thesame re-agent. When, in the case of personssufficiently sensitive to perceive distinctly thepasses made with a large crystal along the in-ner surface of the hand, I drew along the lefthands of the patients the points of the fingersof my right hand, turned laterally, so that onefinger followed the other, and all passed overthe same line, which was drawn from the wristdown to beyond the point of the middle finger,there was not one among them who did notperceive the effect, exactly as from the pointof a crystal. It was generally described as acool aura, more rarely as a tepid aura; and wasnot only as powerful, but usually considerablymore powerful than a crystal.


" I need not here speak of the diseased sub-jects, since all of those I have hitherto men.tioned perceived the effect with the same sin-gular distinctness with which they felt, as ageneral rule, every magnetic pass; and Mlles.Mlaix and Nowotny were even able to distin-guish the effect of each finger separately. Butthere were but few healthy persons who werequite sufficiently sensitive for this re-action.Indeed, some of these, who only felt indistinctlythe action of the crystals, perceived that of thefingers, used as above described, so plainlythat they could always point it out while theeyes were averted. I am permitted here to re-fer to my friend, M. Carl Schuh,who is a strong,healthy man, and perceives the action of crys-tals with unusual distinctness. When, to makeassurance doubly sure, and contrary to my ownrule, I blindfolded him, and made slow passeswith the fingers of my right hand, as before de-scribed, over his left hand, he experienced sostrong and distinct a sensation, analogous tothat produced by a crystal, that he could dis-tinguish each individual pass, and was able,for example, at all times exactly to tell when Ihad made exactly two-thirds of the whole pass.M. Studer, already mentioned, also perceivedthis quite as plainly, as well as numerous other


persons, among whom I have permission toname one of the finest, most powerful, andhardiest men I have ever seen, who has travelledthrough Persia and Kurdistan, and twice penetrated from Egypt into the heart of Africa: whois therefore a rare example of iron health andstrength of constitution, namely, M. Kotschy,who accompanied M. Russegger in part of histravels. He perceives the effect most distinctlywhen the temperature of the air is agreeable,and less distinctly when it is cold. The fingers,therefore, act, as on the sensitive nerve, exactly inthe same way as a crystal of middling size.

" I compared the two forces with reference totheir conductibility. I caused Mlle. Sturmanto take hold of one end of a rod of Germansilver with her right hand, taking care pre-viously to avoid touching it myself. I allowedher some time to become accustomed to the sen-sation caused by the rod taken alone. I nowplaced on the other end the points of the fingersof my right hand, which were rather moist. Sheinstantly perceived a warm sensation, and thispassed upward as far as the elbow. I nowadded the fingers of my left hand; the sensa-tion became much stronger, and reached to theshoulder. I removed my fingers; the sensationrapidly diminished, without, however, instantly


disappearing. I next attached and removedmy fingers alternately; the sensation kept pacewith the changes, increasing and diminishingregularly. On another occasion I requestedDr Lippich to do the same; his fingers producedexactly the same effects. I tried the same ex-periments on Mlle. Maix. I caused her to takehold of one end of the same rod, and, after ashort interval, I first applied five, then tenfingers to the other end. The warm sensationwas instantly perceived and it rose and fell asI applied or removed the fingers. With thewhole ten it was so strong as to pass throughthe whole arm and into the head. I beggedher physician to try the same experiment. Hedid so, with the same results, only, althoughhre was ten years my junior the effect producedby his fingers was distinctly less powerful thanthat caused by mine. Father Lambert, theconfessor of the patient, was accidentally pres-ent, and I begged him also to try She foundhis fingers as powerful as mine. The nurse ofthe patient, Mlle. Barbara Pschial also madethe trial Her fingers caused similar sensations,but much more feebly than that of men I re-peated these experiments substituting for therod of German silver an iron wire about fivefeet in length. When one end was held by the


patient and I applied five fingers to the otherthe patient perceived a current of decidedheat; and with my ten fingers the sensationwas stronger. It always quickly disappearedwhen I dropped the wire out of my hand:This fact was controlled by frequent repetitions.I next caused the sister of patient, whose ner-vous system was also in some degree diseased,to apply her ten fingers to the end of the wire.The effect produced was strikingly feeble.The fingers of another female were added tohers: the effect was sensibly stronger; but thewhole twenty fingers together did not producenearly as much effect as my ten fingers alone,although I have long been gray and bald. Itried also a copper wire nearly ten feet inlength. It conducted the force, but lessrapidly. and somewhat more feebly than theiron wire. The same experiments, with manyvariations, were repeated with Mlle. Reichel,and with similar results. The action wasvery powerful in the case of Mlle. Atzmanus-dlorfer; even M. Studer in perfect health wasso sensitive, that he perceived quite distinctlythe action of my hands through metallic wires.It follows from all these experiments, that theforce derived from the human hand may be con-ducted through other bodies, exactly like the cry.


balline force, and that such bodies are conductorsin the same way for both forces.

"I now wished to try whether bodies couldbe charged with the force from the hand. Ibegan with Mlle. Sturman. I laid the Germansilver rod near her, and allowed it to lie for aquarter of an hour. I then begged her to takeit in her hand, and thus to become accustomedto the sensation it might cause. After doing so,she laid it down; and then I took it in my handfor some seconds, and laid it down. When shetook hold of it, she felt warm, and so strangelycharged, that the well-known sensation causedunder similar circumstances by crystals rosethrough the hand as far as to the elbow. Thiswas, of course, repeated, with many variations,for the sake of control. Her physician, Dr.Lippich, made a similar experiment. At myrequest, in another room, he took into hishands for a short time one of two preciselysimilar porcelain saucers, not touching theother. They were now presented to the patient,who, with the greatest facility and accuracy,distinguished that which had been held in thehand from the other. After about ten minutes,the effect was dissipated, and both saucersfelt alike. The experiment with the rod wassoon after repeated with Mlle. Maix. in the same


way as above It yielded the same results: therod was charged by my fingers, and the chargewhich Mile Sturman had felt for five minuteswas perceived by the more sensitive Mile. Maixto the last, gradually diminishing for twentyminutes. In both patients the sensation wasthe same; one of warmth, rising into the arm,and coinciding exactly with that caused, undersimilar circumstances, by the rock crystal. Iobserved the same phenomena, some monthslater, in Mlles. Reichel and Atzmanusdorfer.The most surprising result is that obtainedwith a glass of water. If it be taken in onehand, and grasped below by the fingers, and ifthis be continued for about ten minutes, it thenpossesses, for sensitive patients, the smell, thetaste, and all the well-marked and curiousproperties of what is called magnetized water.Those who have never examined the matterexperimentally, may exclaim irrationallyagainst this. I was formerly myself one ofthis number, but all those who have tested thisfact by experiment, and witnessed the effects,as I have done, can only speak of it with as-tonishment The water thus changed, whichis exactly similar to that treated by magnets orcrystals, has, therefore, received from the fingersan abundant charge of the peculiar force resid-

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Ing in them, and retains it for a considerabletime. I could, after a time produce similareffects on all possible substances, by holdingthem for some time in my hand The patients,who had tried them all before I touched them,now perceived in all of them the same change.as if they had been stroked with the poles ofmagnets or crystals" and this. whether theyknew of my having touched the objects or hadbeen kept in ignorance of my having done so.It follows plainly from all this, that bodies maybe charged with the fogrce residing in the hands,exactly as with the crystalline force.

" In this comparative investigation, however,the luminous phenomena, which I have now todescribe, form, both literally and metaphorically, a brilliant point. One day, when I was ob-serving Mlle. Reichel, who, after severe spasmswhen in a sort of half sleep, with closed eyes,was playing with the magnetic flame, an amuse-ment in which she particularly delighted, I in.troduced my outstretched hand in the dark, be-tween her and the flame She instantly beganto play, as before, with my fingers, and tospeak to the bystanders of five little flames,which jumped about in the air. She did notnotice my hand, but took the motion of myfingers, at the points of wlnch she saw little


flames, for a spontaneous dancing of the flames.All those who were present now held up theirhands, and asked whether fire could possiblyalso be flowing from their fingers. The flamewas visible to the patient on the hands of everymale person present, more or less brightly; butnot one finger of a female had sufficient light toshow a flame, and exhibited at the utmost afeeble glimmer. This was even the case withher own fingers. As long as her illness con-tinued, these experiments were often repeated,in order to amuse her after her fits, or for thegratification of many other persons. But when

she had recovered it was found that she had the

power, which still continues unchanged, of per-

ceiving, not only during her illness, but also in

the intervals of apparently strong health, the

magnetic flames, the light in crystals, and the

flames on human hands, if the room were onlydark enough. Nay, it appeared that she had

possessed this power from childhood. When a

child, her mother had been often obliged to raise

her in her arms, that she might convince herself

that there was no fire proceeding from nails

and hooks in the wall, as she often spoke of

such appearances with exclamations of wonder.

There were even two of her brothers and sis.

ters who, in the same way, saw everywhere


luminous appearances, where other personscould see nothing. Now, while I am writingthis, Mile. Reichel daily assists me mn researcheswhich I am making in this direction, on elec-tricity and magnetism; and we shall see at afuture period, from my reports, to what con-clusions they have already led and will lead.I was thus enabled, with the aid of this sen-sitive patient, to study in the most sober andcomprehensive manner, and for a long time,the luminous phenomena seen on the humanhand; an investigation which I still dailypursue.

"Experiments with Mlle. Atzmanusdorfergave essentially the same results. But she sawthe flames of a larger size. While Mile. Reichel,m her peculiar degree of sensitiveness, de-scribed them as being from 0.8 to 1.2 inches inlength, Mlle. Atzmanusdorfer saw them in thedark from 2 to 2.5 inches long, that is, almostas long as a finger. Mlle. Reichel made draw-ings of these beautiful appearances, which Ishall give in one of the subsequent parts of thiswork. The fact established by several observers,that fiery bundles of light flow from the finger-points of healthy men, in the same way as from thepoles of crystals, is su~icient for my presentelaject."


Here, then, we have the most conclusive evi-dence of the existence in man of the peculiarforce called Animal Magnetism, and also thatit is conductible and can be imparted to all sub-stances. This testimony is all the more valuable,as the facts here stated can be verified at anytime by all who may choose to investigate thesubject. How ridculous, then, mn the face ofsuch testimony as this, are the denials of thosewho assume to pronounce upon the subjectwithout in the least having qualified themselvesso to do.

As a therapeutic means, this force has everyreason to recommend it to the physician.While it in no way interferes with the action ofa drug, it is efficient where drugs most con-spicuously fail; and, as an auxiliary to surgicasand medical treatment, it will, when better un-derstood, fill a need that has long been felt.For instance, in those cases where surgical inter-ference is necessary, and yet where the condi-tion of the patient is such as to render an opera-tion unsafe, there is no other means that will soquickly impart vitality, and that will tendso much to insure a successful result as this,And in those adynamic diseases, where the en-feebled system fails to respond to drug action,this force will prove most valuable.


While the Animal Magnetic force has provedefficacious in both acute and chronic diseases,it is in the cure of the latter that it has achievedits greatest success; especially in the treatmentof this class of maladies, it is destined to forman important part of the therapeutics of the future; and in those diseases which have provedthe least amenable to ordinary methods of cure,it will be our chief reliance.

In the treatment of that fearful and myste.rious disease, insanity, I believe that this force is

yet to play an important part Although my experience in this direction has been limited, andI cannot speak with that degree of confidenceregarding its efficiency in this, as in other ills

to which flesh is heir, yet the results so far at

tained seem to warrant its thorough trial in this

disease. Of the few cases of mental disorder

which I have had occasion to treat, during eight

years' employment of this means, one only af-

forded me the opportunity to continue the treat.

ment a sufficient length of time to be consld-

ered a fair test of its merits. In this, a case of

melancholia-reported in a former paper--of

several years' standing, in which other means

had failed, the treatment was apphed less

than two months, and resulted in completerecovery.


In those diseases occurring in scrofulouschildren, which generally result in deformity,Animal Magnetism is pre-eminently qualified totake the lead of all other modes of treatment;and I think I may truthfully assert that, in themajority of cases of this kind, deformity maybe entirely prevented if this treatment be ap-plied in time.

In order to demonstrate the action of thisforce, in this class of troubles, I will herebriefly cite a case.

Charlie B., aged five years; suffering fromPotts disease of the spine, and white swellingof the knee. Various methods of treatmenthad been unavailingly employed in his case, andhe was rapidly growing worse. When broughtto me for treatment, he was fast losing flesh,had no appetite, was peevish and irritable.Examination revealed some curvature in thelumbar region, and spinal abscess. The rightknee was considerably enlarged and very sensi-tive. The leg was flexed so that the toesscarcely touched the floor when standing, andmotion exceedingly painful.

After a few treatments there was marked im-provement in the appetite, and he soon beganto show evidence of returning bodily health.The improvement rapidly continued; and al.

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though he wore no brace or suppor bor thespine, the destructive process was arrested, theabscess gradually healed, and in a short timethe spinal trouble was entirely cured. It isnow nearly five years since I treated thiscase, and the friends of the patient (who liveout of town) inform me that there is no troubleor deformity of the spine, so far as they canperceive. As the treatment was discontinuedat the end of nine weeks, the knee, thoughmuch improved, has not been cured, as I be-lieve it would have been, had the treatmentbeen persisted in.

I could cite many cases, showing the value ofthis force in various diseases; but the limits ofthis paper will not permit. I will merely statethat by this means, I have cured quite a numberof cases of paralysis, nervous affections, andnumerous other forms of disease coming underthe head of chronic. Many of these cases hav-ing first tried the ordinary method of cure with-out success.

The results attained by this force in thosediseases incident to women, especially entitle itto the consideration of the profession as anauxiliary treatment in such cases.

To conclude: Animal Magnetism is a scientifle

fact. If it be not a fact, "then do no facts exist


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In the ascending scale of creation, it is

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nic matter ends and organic matter be-

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the animal into man, and man into the

divine, thereby creating an unbroken

chain which binds all nature into one

stupenduous whole.

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