Animal electricity and magnetism, &c. demonstrated after the laws of nature, with new ideas upon matter and motion : in two parts / by the Rev. John Bell, professor of that science.

  • Bell, John, professor of animal magnetism.
Date:
[1790?]
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Credit: Animal electricity and magnetism, &c. demonstrated after the laws of nature, with new ideas upon matter and motion : in two parts / by the Rev. John Bell, professor of that science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tions, and appears luminous; others will fee the fkin ap- pear to them like a fieve, and fee the grofs humors or perfpiration as big as fmall (hot; and by rubbing the hands thev fee fparkles of fire coming out. Mr. Boyle mentions a perfon, after getting half fuddled with claret (which I fuppofe relaxed the ftomach and his nervous fyftem), when he walked in the night, could fee to read moderate print.—Another who could in the night diflinguifh colours. Grimaldi tells us, that fome women can. by their eyes alone, diflinguifh between eggs laid by black hens, and thofe by white ones. This finglc'faff. will lead to many things which I fhall relate about Somnambutes. Wfc muff not attribute to zohim all the fingularities which you obferve among people affected in the nerves; it is a real caufe, as that which determines the mod reafonable man. 1 kjiew a Gentleman in London, who fliook his head and arm every inflant, like a perpetual motion; a Lady I treated when in his company, had the fame involuntary affection. A Gentleman in Cork, when in company, would pronounce Peter often, and the fame word during a week—then he would pronounce it a bad one during another week, and could not help it. There are different methods of treating thofe difeafes, either by treating with- out Crifes, or with it; fuch people are the beft Somnambuln. If a perfon is irritable, you treat gently, in oppofition; by drawing a certain quantity of fluid from him; if on the contrary you throw the fluid towards him, you may put him into a gentle Crifis ; if the patient has a trembling of the limbs like the head, you treat that part; if you cannot fucceed by treating, apply a magnetic bandeau round