"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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    EXPOSED. LETTER I. Boston, July 14, 1845. Dear Sir,—As you requested, I have given the pamphlet purporting to be the Confessions of a Practical Magnetizer, or An Expose of Animal Magnetism, a thorough reading, and, but for your request, I should have thrown it aside, as utterly unworthy of a moment's notice. However, the reasons you assign, have, upon farther consideration, in- duced me to comply with your wishes in exposing the folly and wicked- ness of this silly publication. With you, I do not suppose, that it will be read by many intelligent people, of any class, nor that any one with a thimble full of brains, who knows any thing of the subject of which it professes to treat, would be likely to be deceived by its puerile details, as false and improbable as they so manifestly appear to be. But, the fact that this subject has fallen into disreputable and unworthy hands, like this one who dubs himself as a practical animal magnetizer, that there is a vast amount of misconception and prejudice in the com- munity generally, against the subject, and that this pamphlet will be likely to be read only by those who have not the means of detecting the falsehoods palmed off upon them by this writer, forces upon me the con- viction, that, upon the whole, it may be best for me to expose the humbugry of this pamphlet, as worthless as it may be. The mass, we know, do not enter into a thorough investigation of the laws of mind, and hence it is reasonable to suppose, that most who may