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A practical manual of animal magnetism; containing an exposition of the methods employed in producing the magnetic phenomena; with its application to the treatment and cure of diseases ... / by Alphonse Teste ; translated from the second edition by D. Spillan.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1843
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Credit: A practical manual of animal magnetism; containing an exposition of the methods employed in producing the magnetic phenomena; with its application to the treatment and cure of diseases ... / by Alphonse Teste ; translated from the second edition by D. Spillan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mixed with blood, it would have choked me, and I would be now dead.” At the sitting of the 5th, Madame Perier said that she was going on better; she prescribed some slight remedies for herself, and told her husband to force her to go out and take exercise ; that she was now strong enough to go and walk with him. She also recommended him to make her use the injections more frequently, and to introduce two bougies every day.* On the 6th, a moral cause having once more retarded the menses of the patient, it happened, unfortunately for her, that at this critical moment, when her state required so much care, her husband was attacked with a violent fever, with all the symptoms of acute pneu- monia. However, in spite of the state in which he was, M. Perier magnetised his wife, who attended to nothing but him. On the next day it became absolutely necessary to suspend all magnetic operations, and this mischievous inter- ruption must annul, all at once, the results obtained up to this period. However, on the 8th of December, in spite of his own illness, M. Perier put his wife to sleep ; but when he asked her if he could magnetise her, she answered, no, that his fluid at the last sitting had done her much harm. Then she added, that he must continue to put her to sleep every day, but to magnetise her only when she asked him. On the 10th, she states at length that her menses were commencing, that they would last just fifteen days, and that for three or four days they would be so profuse, that, if she was not apprised of it, she would think, when she awoke, * The ulcer in the upper part of the rectum still existed.