Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism (French, Paperback)

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1837 edition. Extrait: ...same principle, modified by man, animated by his spirit, and directed by his will. He thinks that the first sort of magnetism, which he calls tellurism, or siderism, can be employed without the concurrence of the human will, and solely by the action of certain mineral or vegetable substances. According to him a baquet regularly constructed can, without having been magnetized, act upon a patient who comes to place himself there every day for a certain time, and produce, in the course of time, most of the phenomena obtained by the magnetic processes. I invite philosophers to examine this theory. My ignorance of the German language does not permit me to judge of it; but the testimony of Kieser is of great weight; and if, as I suppose, there is reason to reject his theory, there is none at all to deny the facts upon which he sustains it, and which are certainly worthy of attention. This is not the place to enter into greater details upon the researches to which a person should devote himself, when he wishes to study magnetism as a science. He who has this object in view, will learn, by reading the works published within a few years, what things ought most particularly to fix his attention. I merely recommend to him not to neglect any thing, to consult the works of the enemies of magnetism as well as those of its partizans, to search out in the books of historians, philosophers, and physicians, phenomena analogous to those which the practice of magnetism brings to our view, to separate them from all the hypotheses to which they have given birth, and not to be hasty in adopting general principles. By reading the works published upon magnetism in the various schools, from Van Helmont to the...