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?]
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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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    hands thereon, and the time indicated there and by them; but of the nature and power of the machinery behind the dial, they are ignorant. So there are too many who care little for the cerebral machinery, its form, size, quality, and power—by which the mind ani- mates the face — indicates thereon the morning, the mid-day, and the twilight of the human soul in Time. To appreciate Phreno-Mesmerism, some knowledge of Phrenology is requisite. The successful mesmerist must either be a keen physiognomist or a good phrenologist. In the latter case, his psychological experiments will be the most satisfactory and fascinating. Sensitives in the deep mesmeric sleep, and who are conscious of your thoughts, or otherwise in full sympathy or en rapport with yourself, are not subjects for phreno - mesmeric experiments. The experiments with them, at least, would not be conclusive. In the somnambulistic state when the subject is deprived of consciousness, and is so far rendered oblivious as not to remember what has occurred during sleep, unless impressed to remember—in this state the cerebral organs of the mental faculties resemble a piano—when excited by mesmeric influence, they give forth manifestations in accordance with Phren- ology, and the experiments are most effective and con- clusive. The phenomena are not the result of suggestion, accident, or imagination. In the majority of cases the sensitive, as one of the general public, can have no possible knowledge of Phrenology. It is not possible for the experimenter to be successful in this particular department 'without a thorough know- ledge of Mesmerism on the one hand, and Phrenology on the other. The frequent failures which are sure to accompany a ‘‘little knowledge” have led many experi- menters to declare that phreno-mesmeric phenomena are