Veritas, or, A treatise, containing observations on, and a supplement to the two reports of the commissioners, appointed by the King of France to examine into animal magnetism / translated from the French, with certificates of cures performed at Calais, by John Bonnoit de Mainauduc. Vol. I.

  • De Mainauduc, Jean Boniot, -1797.
Date:
1785
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Credit: Veritas, or, A treatise, containing observations on, and a supplement to the two reports of the commissioners, appointed by the King of France to examine into animal magnetism / translated from the French, with certificates of cures performed at Calais, by John Bonnoit de Mainauduc. Vol. I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 9 ) / I need not obferve how valuable and dec!- five thefe firfb examinations were. Thefe for- tunate beginnings gave me room to hope that the Commiflioners would foon be as well con- vinced as I was of the happy effects of Magne- tifm ; but thefe hopes lpeedily vanifhed. The Cornmifiloners foon gave up the proceedings which they had agreed on, and which they had already in part put in execution; viz. that of paying attention to the patients.—Why did they giveit up?—I requeft the reader only to obferve the reafons they give for fo doing. “ The Commiftioners,” fay they, “ foon thought that the public place of treatment could not be a proper one for their experiments. The multiplicity of efte&s were the fir ft ob- ftacles ; the variety of incidents, all occurring together, prevented the neceftary attention which fhould be feparately paid to any one of them. Belides, the patients of rank who at- tend the treatment might think our queftions importunate. They therefore refolvec, that as their attendance at the public treatment was not neceftary, it would be fufficient for a few of them to go there from time to time.