What is mesmerism? : the question answered by a mesmeric practitioner, or, Mesmerism not miracle an attempt to show that mesmeric phenomena and mesmeric cures are not supernatural ; to which is appended useful remarks and hints for sufferers who are trying mesmerism for a cure / by George Barth.

  • Barth, George H.
Date:
1853
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Credit: What is mesmerism? : the question answered by a mesmeric practitioner, or, Mesmerism not miracle an attempt to show that mesmeric phenomena and mesmeric cures are not supernatural ; to which is appended useful remarks and hints for sufferers who are trying mesmerism for a cure / by George Barth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    logician. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, no small name in the world of literature, has not only long since investigated the subject but expressed his conviction of its truth. Dr. Gregory, the Edin- burgh professor of chemistry, who ranks amongst the best chemists in Europe, is also a mesmeriser and has written a large and excellent work on the facts and phenomena of mesmerism. Amongst physicians and physiologists there are plenty of believers—Dr. Elliotson standing at their head. However sceptics may affect to scoff at mesmerism, or sneer at those who practise it, they surely cannot say our evidence is insufficient when La Place, Archbishop Whately, and Professor De Morgan have found it sufficient. Dr. Elliotson became convinced, by his per- sonal experiments, of the truth that there existed a human power or force of some kind which could cause or evolve various singular mental and phy- sical phenomena in persons subjected to its action ; and that it possessed great potency as a curative agency in disease. Dr. Elliotson’s name was not an obscure one in the annals of his profession; he filled the first medical chair in the then new Metropolitan Univer- sity; he was first physician in its hospital; he was the author of one of the best and most voluminous >yorks on the principles and practice of medicine