Death-bed visions / by William Barrett, F.R.S.

  • William F. Barrett
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Death-bed visions / by William Barrett, F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITOR’S PREFACE 'T^HIS book is sent out to the public in an ^ unfinished state. It will be seen that in the introduction the author has only sketched the line of discussion which he would have elab¬ orated, and even this outline is incomplete. The editor prefers, however, to leave un¬ touched both the introduction and the dis¬ cussion of cases, believing that by so doing the thought of the author will be more truly conveyed than would be the case were any elaboration undertaken by another hand- The outline was clearly unfinished, for several passages in the books of reference had been marked by him for discussion, and particularly paragraphs in Professor Bozzano’s recently published book, “ Phenomenes Psychiques au Moment de la Mort,” translated from Italian to French by C. de Vesme (Editions de la B.P.S., 8 Rue Copernic [16c], Paris), 1923. He was specially interested in Bozzano’s observation that if the phenomena were caused by the thoughts of the dying person being
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