The illustrated practical mesmerist : curative and scientific / by William Davey.

  • Davey, William.
Date:
1889
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    PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION. This work having now arrived at the Sixth Edition, it is, perhaps, fitting that something should he said_ respecting its late Author, and his purpose in its production. Wm. Davey was a native of Devonshire, the descendant of an ancient family who once held considerable possessions in Cornwall. These, however, prior to his birth, had passed into alien hands, and, as a result of this, combined with other domestic trials and losses, he was at an early period thrown upon his own resources. What, in most cases, might be esteemed a misfortune, was, perhaps, in this instance, but the necessary part of a severe yet invigorating educa- tion, as he thus grew up, from boyhood, in habits of unwavering self-reliance, which proved eminently advantageous to him, amidst the harsher duties and sterner controversies of after years. Employed, during youth and early manhood, in the lace trade of his native county, in which his unswerving in- tegrity and superior talents soon obtained for him the marked approval and unshaken confidence ot his employers, he, notwithstanding the most assiduous attention to the duties of his position, lound time for higher purposes and loftier studies than commerce and manufactures, however im- portant, were likely to require. Devoting himself.