The principle of health transferable; or, how to obtain immediate relief from pain, and a speedy cure in disease. Addressed to all who are sick and suffering.

Date:
1848
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Credit: The principle of health transferable; or, how to obtain immediate relief from pain, and a speedy cure in disease. Addressed to all who are sick and suffering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    authority for this assertion? We know not, unless Satan has paid them a visit and let them into his secret; and if they assert on his direct authority, we humbly caution them to beware that the arch-deceiver is not cheat¬ ing them,—that he is not making them his instruments to stay mankind from “doing unto others as they would be done by,”— from “loving their neighbour as themselves /” that he is not endangering their own soul’s health. The mesmerist has the same liberty of action which other human beings possess, and can admonish his patient for his moral and spiritual welfare, if he so pleases; or he may advise him to do evil if he chooses, and is depraved enough to do so; but this meddling with the moral princi¬ ples is not necessarily included in the mes¬ meric practice, any more than it is in the practice of the Fellows of the College of Physicians, or the licentiates of the Apothe¬ caries’ Company, who profess to cure disease by the exhibition of drugs. Those who think that mesmerism must needs endanger souls are in the error of ignorance. But it may be asked, are we assured that the agent