How to mesmerise : a manual of instruction in the history, mysteries, modes of procedure, and arts of mesmerism, or, animal magnetism, hypnotism, clairvoyance, thought reading, and mesmeric entertainments / by James Coates.
- Coates, James, 1843-1933.
- Date:
- [between 1890 and 1899?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to mesmerise : a manual of instruction in the history, mysteries, modes of procedure, and arts of mesmerism, or, animal magnetism, hypnotism, clairvoyance, thought reading, and mesmeric entertainments / by James Coates. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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- Found on image 9 / 136…st and most suc- cessful Mesmerists of the day—both in private and pub- lic life—Captain Hudson, Dr. Spencer T. Hall, Captain John James, Dr. William Hitchman ; the friends and contemporaries of Drs. Elliotson, Braid, and Gregory ; Harriet J. Martineau, H. G. Atkinson, F.G.S., and others—has not been withou...
- Found on image 82 / 136 (page 70)…evolved by the mesmeric processes, however startling or interesting, are valueless unless they contribute to the requirements of the healing art. Dr. Hitchman, M.R.C.S. Eng. (formerly of Guy’s Hospital, London, late of Leeds Cancer Hospital, and of Liverpool), many years ago informed me “that it was erroneou...
- Found on image 82 / 136 (page 70)… of those who had at some previous time received some benefit from Mesmerism. Although I cannot record the cure of cancer, like Dr. Elliot son or Dr. Hitchman, or absolute cures of total blindness like Dr. Mack, my pretty wide and general experience enables me to declare my undoubted conviction, that there i...
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![only a short time, were observed in Somnambulism. They were always preceded by a physical change, resembling an attack, and they were apparently induced by any mental suggestion which accidentally recalled the previous existence of V.”—[The italics are mine ] The whole of these experiments are for the purpose of supporting “The Theory of Suggestion—or Hypnotism,”” as opposed to the Theory of Mesmerism or Animal Mag- netism. In the following pages the difference between Animal Magnetism and Hypnotism, may be traced throughout every chapter. Belonging to the old school of Mesmerists, I have a weakness for Animal Magnetism as the primary operating agent in all mesmeric pheno- mena. At the same time, I have always known and recognised the in^uence of other agents or secondary causes, such as weariness of flesh and spirit, suggestion and imagination, made so much of now-a-days by hypnotists. These powers then, which medical men and others are beginning to realise can be exercised effectively, and with good and evil results, should as far as possible be kept out of the hands of inexperienced novices and unscrupulous operators. Whether this can be done, legally or otherwise, it is difficult to say. The best course for all who read this book, is to be careful “How to mesmerise,” and by whom they are mesmerised This brochure is now left to tell its own tale, and, with all its faults, it may repay careful perusal. JAMES COATES. Greta Ba^^k, Crosshill, Glasgow, H.B.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28125216_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
