"Confessions of a magnetiser" exposed! : exhibiting the folly and falsehood of a recent pamphlet with the above title : with remarks, showing the falsity of the notions hitherto prevalent in regard to what has been denominated "mesmerism", and giving the outlines of the author's new theory of mind / by La Roy Sunderland.

  • Sunderland, La Roy, 1802-1885.
Date:
1845
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Credit: "Confessions of a magnetiser" exposed! : exhibiting the folly and falsehood of a recent pamphlet with the above title : with remarks, showing the falsity of the notions hitherto prevalent in regard to what has been denominated "mesmerism", and giving the outlines of the author's new theory of mind / by La Roy Sunderland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    make them sell, sticks out his shingle as a practical magnetizer, when the soft-head never put a person into a real state of somnambulism since he was born, probably; that he never put one person to sleep in the manner he describes, I know. The thing was never done in that way, never ; and he but shows his ignorance in supposing (if, indeed, he does believe) the truth of what he says.