Animal magnetism and somnambulism / by ... Adolphe Didier.

  • Didier, Adolphe.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Animal magnetism and somnambulism / by ... Adolphe Didier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    seance. When he was in the sleep, I put a letter iuto his hand, asking him what it contained. u Answer ; ' Yes, I see a bank-note.' Question : ' Are you certain of that ?' Answer : ' Yes, but it does not seem to have been made like other bank notes : I see only a half.' Question : ■ You are right ; but can you tell me where the other half is ? Answer : c It is here, close by me ! it is in the box hanging up there.5 Nothing could be more satisfactory than this ex- periment.* H At another seance, I handed him a letter, on bav- ins: first torn off the signature. To mv °reat asto- nishment, he told me the names and relationship of the person. At another seance, in the presence of M—, who was an officer like myself, I was fain to submit his lucidity to a third test. I put into his hands a large * A few days afterwards, his Lordship begged ray acceptance of the two parts of this bank-note, as a souvenir of the expe- riment.—A. D.