The use of clairvoyance in medicine / by John Mill.

  • Mill, John, 1645-1707.
Date:
1857
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    INTRODUCTION. There are two or three observations which, in justice to ourselves and the subject upon which we write, it is important that the reader should bear in mind in perusing the following pages. The first is, that we do not intend to explain what clairvoyance is, or how the faculty is acquired, but simply to record certain facts which have come under our own observation, and for the truth of which we hold ourselves responsible. The question itself is one of vast extent, and has its relations to a number of other mental phenomena ; and the time has not, perhaps, yet come for the full solution of the problem. We shall, however, have performed our part by con- tributing what we know to the present store of human knowledge, without supposing for a moment that similar facts have not been observed by others, or that still more remarkable results may not be obtained when we are better acquainted with the occult laws of our nature than we are at present. It is well known to those who are acquainted with the history of medfcinc, that the employment of clairvoyance and mesmerism, for the purpose of heal-