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... inquiry into the subject of Vital Magnetism . First , then , I trust I have been led by a love , for its own sake , of truth , my pole- star from earliest years . Secondly , I have found the subject connected with some scientific ...
... inquiry into the subject of Vital Magnetism . First , then , I trust I have been led by a love , for its own sake , of truth , my pole- star from earliest years . Secondly , I have found the subject connected with some scientific ...
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... inquiry must be carefully distinguished from the prejudices of ignorance . It is not the side on which error is usually found . It is , rather , an instructive speculation to observe how generally mankind have sought to smother and ...
... inquiry must be carefully distinguished from the prejudices of ignorance . It is not the side on which error is usually found . It is , rather , an instructive speculation to observe how generally mankind have sought to smother and ...
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... inquiry will not have been in vain : the mind will have been brought into more near communings with God and with itself , and at least the disposition will prepare it for the investigation of other truths . CHAPTER II . THE AUTHOR'S ...
... inquiry will not have been in vain : the mind will have been brought into more near communings with God and with itself , and at least the disposition will prepare it for the investigation of other truths . CHAPTER II . THE AUTHOR'S ...
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... inquire into his pretensions . This committee was composed partly of physicians , and partly of members of the Academy of Sciences , and among them were Franklin and the learned Jussieu . Franklin , who was unwell at the time , appears ...
... inquire into his pretensions . This committee was composed partly of physicians , and partly of members of the Academy of Sciences , and among them were Franklin and the learned Jussieu . Franklin , who was unwell at the time , appears ...
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... inquiry , attained such consi- deration , that once more , in 1825 , the French Government issued a mandate to the Academy of Sciences for their investigation of its truth or false- hood . This commission was composed of nine persons ...
... inquiry , attained such consi- deration , that once more , in 1825 , the French Government issued a mandate to the Academy of Sciences for their investigation of its truth or false- hood . This commission was composed of nine persons ...
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abscess acquainted adduced afflicted aged Animal Magnetism appeared Arab ascertained asked asserted assuage blessing blind body called cause CHAPTER clairvoyance Colquhoun coma corre creature cure curious declaration disease distinguish Divine Druids duced effects Elliotson evil exercised experience eyes fact feel FLEET STREET free from pain gentleman gift hand happiness HIGHLEY human inquiry insensibility instances Jesuit judgment Jussieu kind knees knowledge Lavater learner magnetised person Majestie medium ment Mesmer mind minutes miracles months moral nature nerves nervous objects observe once operation parties passes patient perceive perceptions phenomena philosophical physicians produced Pyne Pyrrhus received remarkable remedial power render restored returned rience Scripture scrofulous seemed seen senses shew sidered sight Signed sleep slept slumber Solon somnambulism soul spirit subtile suffering thank thermometer things thought tion touch touch'd truth Vespasian vessels vibrations Vienna VITAL MAGNETISM woman wondrous Zurich
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Page 18 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 27 - Majesty began first to touch for the evil ! according to custom, thus : his Majesty sitting under his state in the Banqueting-house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought, or led, up to the throne, where they kneeling, the king strokes their faces, or cheeks with both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplain in his formalities says, " He put his hands upon them, and he healed them.
Page 47 - Mr. Saunderson, the blind mathematician, could distinguish by his hand, in a series of Roman medals, the true from the counterfeit, with a more unerring discrimination th'an the eye of a professed virtuoso ; and, when he was present at the astronomical observations in the garden of his college, he was accustomed to perceive every cloud which passed over the sun.
Page 49 - ... Qu. 18. If in two large tall cylindrical Vessels of Glass inverted, two little Thermometers be suspended so as not to touch the Vessels, and the Air be drawn out of one of these Vessels, and these Vessels thus prepared be carried out of a cold place into a warm one ; the Thermometer in vacua will grow warm -as much and almost as soon as the Thermometer which is not in vacua.
Page 27 - Then follows, an epistle (as at first a Gospel) with the Liturgy, prayers for the sick, with some alteration; lastly, the blessing; and then the Lord Chamberlain and the Comptroller of the Household bring a basin, ewer and towel, for his Majesty to wash.
Page 49 - Is not the heat of the warm room conveyed through the vacuum by the vibrations of a much subtiler medium than air, which, after the air was drawn out remained in the vacuum?
Page 28 - There was so great a concourse of people with their children to be touched for the Evil, that six or seven were crushed to death by pressing at the chirurgeon's door for tickets.
Page 42 - ... former paroxysms, though she had no remembrance of it during the intervals. At one time she was taken to church while under the attack, and there behaved with propriety, evidently attending to the preacher ; and she was at one time so much affected as to shed tears. In the interval she had no recollection of having been at church, but in the next paroxysm she gave a most distinct account of the sermon, and mentioned particularly the part of it by which she had been so much affected.
Page 19 - The smallest hurts sometimes increase and rage More than all art of physic can assuage; Sometimes the fury of the worst disease The hand by gentle stroking, will appease.