Spiritualism and Allied Causes and Conditions of Nervous Derangement (Hardcover)

1876. Contents: Some of the Causes Which Lead to a Belief in Spiritualism-Sensorial Deception; Magnetism in Its Relations to Spiritualism; Concentrated Attention a Source of Erroneous Sensorial Impressions; Sleight of Hand Compared to Spiritualistic Manifestations; The Different Kinds of Mediums; Physical Mediums; Sensitive or Impressible Mediums; Seeing and Auditive Mediums; Speaking Mediums; Curing Mediums; Pneumatographic and Writing Mediums; Somnambulism, Natural and Artificial; Hysteria; Fasting Girls; The Hysteroid Affections-Catalepsy, Ecstasy and Hystero-Epilepsy; and Stigmatization.