Animal magnetism. Being the first part of animal magnetism and homoeopathy, with notes illustrative of the influence of the mind on the body / [Edwin Lee].

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870
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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 / [Edwin Lee]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    llth. That the expression of sentiments in ac- cordance with phrenological manifestations, by per- sons while in somnambulism, upon the particular _organs being excited by magnetising, requires further confirmation. : | 12th. ‘That animal magnetism under proper regu- not considered dangerous. At this time one of them obtained the loan of.a watch from a friend, her own being out of repair. As this watch was a kind of heirloom in the family of the lady from whom it had been borrowed, particular caution was given lest it should meet with some injury. Both of the sisters slept in a room adjoining that of the brother’s, and one night the elder awoke the younger in extreme alarm, and told her that she had dreamed that ‘‘ Mary’s watch had stopped,” and that when she had told her of it, she had replied—*“ Much worse than that had happened, for Charles's breath had stopped also.”? To quiet her agitation, the younger immediately rose, proceeded to her brother’s room, found him asleep, and the watch which had been care- fully put away ina drawer, going correctly. The following night the same dream occurred, accompanied by the same agitation, and was quieted in the same manner—the brother being sound asleep, and the watch going. In the morning, after breakfast, one of these ladies having occasion to write a note, proceeded to her desk, while the other sat with her brother in the adjoiningroom. Having written and folded the note, she was proceeding to take out the watch, which was now in the desk, to use one of the seals appended to it, when she was asto- nished to find it had stopped. and at the same instant a scream from her sister hurried her to the bed side of her brother, who, to her grief, had just breathed his last. The disease was considered to be progress- ing favourably, when he was seized with a sudden spasm, and died of suffocation. ‘The coincidence between the stoppage of the watch and the death of the brother, is the most perplexing circumstance of the case, since the mere stopping of the watch, or the death of the brother, might have been explained on very rational principles; or had the watch stopped before or after the death of the brother, it might have been easily supposed to have been forgotten to be wound up; or itmight have suffered some injury from the hurry and trepidation incidental to anguish and bereavement, but, as the case is related, it is certainly a most extraordinary, surprising, and mysterious incident.”’ In the Life of Sir Henry Wotton, by Izaac Walton, we find a dream related of Sir Henry’s father, Thomas Wotton. A little before his death, he dreamed that the University of Oxford was robbed by townsmen and poor scholars, and that the number was five ; and being that day to write to his son Henry, at Oxford, he thought it worth so much pains as by a postscript to his letter to make a slight inquiry of it. The letter was written from Kent, and came into his son’s hands the very morning after the night on which the robbery was committed; for the dream was true, and the circumstances, though not in the exact time, and by it such light was given to this work of darkness, that the five guilty persons were presently discovered and apprehended. Wal-