Mesmerism in India : second half-yearly report of the Calcutta Mesmeric Hospital, from 1st March to 1st September, 1849, containing accounts of formidable and numerous painless surgical operations, and of the successful administration of mesmerism in insanity, and other diseases : to which is added, remarks on the conduct of the English medical journalists, and nearly the whole of the medical profession, in reference to the greatest of medical blessings : with some hints to the public on the employment of mesmerism and on mesmerisers / by Dr. Elliotson.

  • Mesmeric Hospital (Calcutta, India)
Date:
1850
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Credit: Mesmerism in India : second half-yearly report of the Calcutta Mesmeric Hospital, from 1st March to 1st September, 1849, containing accounts of formidable and numerous painless surgical operations, and of the successful administration of mesmerism in insanity, and other diseases : to which is added, remarks on the conduct of the English medical journalists, and nearly the whole of the medical profession, in reference to the greatest of medical blessings : with some hints to the public on the employment of mesmerism and on mesmerisers / by Dr. Elliotson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    This is a sad business as regards Dr. Sharkey and the editor of the Gazette, and proves how eagerly assertions are made against mesmerism without any ground. Without the slightest reason hundreds of medical men are now telling patients that mesmerism causes, perhaps at the distance of years, insanity, fits, &c., &c. And the editor of the Medical Gazette de- clares that no one reads The Zoist but the impostors who publish their cases in it.* * No, X., p. 201. FINIS. Walton and Mitchell, Printera, 24, Wardonr>Btreet, London.