Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine / by James Esdaile.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine / by James Esdaile. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Return of Medical Cases cured by Mesmerism, during the last eight months. Nervous Headach Tic-doloureux Nervousness, and Lameness j from Rheumatism of 2^ !- years standing - - -J Spasmodic Colic Acute inflammation eye Chronic ditto of the I Acute inflammation of testes Convulsions Lameness from Rheumatism- Lumbago { Sciatica - - - Pain in crural nerve Palsy of one arm Ditto of half the body Feeling of insects crawling over the body } 3 cured by one trance. 1 ditto. 1 by chronic treatment.* 1 by one trance. 1 by repeated trances in 24 hours. 1 by chronic ti-eatment. 1 by repeated trances in 36 hours. 1 by one trance. 2 by chronic treatment. 1 by general and local mes- merising for a week. 1 ditto. 1 ditto. 1 ditto for a month. 1 ditto for 6 weeks. 1 by one trance. 18 It will be perceived that the above cases are chiefly dis- eases of the nervous system. But as sleep and the absence of pain is the best condition of the body for promoting the resolution of inflammation by the powers of Nature, I have extinguished local inflammations by keeping the patients entranced till this was effected. * By chronic treatment is meant daily mesmerising without the intention of entrancing the patient, which is not necessary. a 4