Underhill on mesmerism : with criticisms on its opposers, and a review of humbugs and humbuggers, with practical instructions for experiments in the science, full directions for using it as a remedy in disease ... the philosophy of its curative powers; how to develop a godd clairvoyant; the philosophy of seeing without eyes. The proofs of immortality derived from the unfoldings of mesmerism ... / by Samuel Underhill.

  • Underhill, Samuel.
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1868
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Credit: Underhill on mesmerism : with criticisms on its opposers, and a review of humbugs and humbuggers, with practical instructions for experiments in the science, full directions for using it as a remedy in disease ... the philosophy of its curative powers; how to develop a godd clairvoyant; the philosophy of seeing without eyes. The proofs of immortality derived from the unfoldings of mesmerism ... / by Samuel Underhill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We feel relieved by a name sometimes, though that name indicates nothing. The physician meets with a case which, to him, is new, or ob- scure, or which he does not at all understand, then how useful is the word Hysteria, or plainer, hysterics. Proud ignorance leaps deep and dark abysses on meaningless words. Of these, none are more convenient than the great word imagin- ation. Has this word any fixed meaning? Can you define it to suit yourself? Dugald Stewart defines it, An acquired faculty, possessed only by cultivated minds. Is this the reader's idea of its meaning? It must be discarded in all scientific investigations. There occurs no phenomena but which can be described better without the use of the word imagination, than with it, if we understand the subjects which we describe. This fact will be fully illustrated in these lectures. This science includes Phrenology and Neuro- logy. It explains sympathy. It reduces many heretofore poetic ideas to facts. It demonstrates vital fluid—a nervo or magnetic fluid; it unfolds its origin; it proves its varieties; it explains its possible and natural changes; it shows its wide radiations; its instrumentation under will-power, and the philosophy of its healing influence.