Veritas: or, a treatise, containing observations on, and a supplement to the two reports of the commissioners, appointed by the King of France to examine into animal magnetism / Translated from the French.

  • De Mainauduc, John Boniot, -1797
Date:
1785
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Credit: Veritas: or, a treatise, containing observations on, and a supplement to the two reports of the commissioners, appointed by the King of France to examine into animal magnetism / Translated from the French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ' iü ] Doétor D’EÜon’s obfervations, and the patients’ fupplement, contain inch refutations ; and the certificates of thofe very patients the Couimif- fioners cjuote fo clearly prove the in- tent of the Reports, and expofe the proceedings, that they leave little more to fay on the fubjeét, than to lament that men of univerfally-allow- ed fenfe and genius fhould permit their fignatures to be handed down to pofterity, and tarnifh that credit they juftly received from the world in fo many other inftances ; their belt friends mull, with a blufh of forrow and furprife, lament that human na- ture could not be perfeâ. The champions in the caufe of eleûricity, who feej deeply imprelfed in their minds the encomuins due to the honeft publications of Dr. Frank-