Manual for magnetizing, with the rotary and vibrating magnetic machine, in the duodynamic treatment of diseases / by H.H. Sherwood.

  • Sherwood, H. H. (Henry Hall)
Date:
1847
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Credit: Manual for magnetizing, with the rotary and vibrating magnetic machine, in the duodynamic treatment of diseases / by H.H. Sherwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Magnetic Organization of the Human System. It has been truly said, that life itself, is only known to us empirically. We acquire a knowledge of disease.in the same way; and the same method is adopted in the cure ; and it may be doubted whether we shall advance much in a scientific knowledge of diseases, or of the remedies for them, until we first obtain a scientific knowledge of the organi- zation which constitutes animal life. We have a very accurate knowledge of the anato- mical or animal organization, but none what- ever of the invisible motive powers which constitute animal life. Few, very few phy- sicians ever had any conception of even the existence of such an organization—yet there cannot be motive power without it. We can ■see the ropes, the levers, and the pulleys, by Which motion is produced, but nothing of the spiritual, sympathetic, and invisible forms that use them for the purposes of motion—yet it is on these forms, in the different organs and other structures, that the immaterial or spirit- ual powers of medicines act; and it was the obvious importance of a knowledge of these forms that induced us, many years since to commence an investigation of this subject.