Animal magnetism : being the first part of Animal magnetism and homoeopathy : with notes illustrative of the influence of the mind on the body / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Animal magnetism : being the first part of Animal magnetism and homoeopathy : with notes illustrative of the influence of the mind on the body / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. When I appended to the first edition of my Observations on the Medical Institutions and Prac- tice, of France, Italy, and Germany, an account of Animal Magnetism and Homoeopathy, respecting which the English public and medical profession were at that time, with some exceptions, in ignorance, I did not anticipate that I should have to enlarge it into a separate work, which I felt myself called upon to do about four years ago, in consequence of the in- creased interest which these subjects had attracted. Public attention having been of late more strongly directed, both to Animal Magnetism and to Homoeo- pathy, some idea may be formed from the present edition of their actual state and claims to considera- tion. As regards the former, as I have no wish to make a book by the accumulation of extraordinary cases, I have selected those only which appear to me to be best authenticated, by the reports of the commissions instituted by the Academie Royal de Medecine, and by many well-known and credible individuals; and if from a consideration of the facts which have been elicited of late years, as well as from a better acquaintance with the sentiments of a large proportion of the medical and scientific world abroad,* I have seen reason to alter and modify the * The belief in Animal Magnetism is pretty universal in Germany, though opinions are divided with respect to the higher order of phe- nomena.