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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    Dodtor D’Efion’s obfervations, and the patients’ fupplement, contain fuch refutations; and the certificates of thofe very patients the Commif- fioners quote fo clearly prove the in- tent of the Reports, and expofe the proceedings, that they leave little more to fay on the fubjecfi, than to lament that men of univerfally-allow- . ed fenfe and genius fhould permit their fignatures to be handed down to pofterity, and tarnifh that credit they juftly received from the world in fo many other infiances; their befi friends muft, with a blufh of borrow and furprife, lament that human na- ture could not be perfect. The champions in the caufe of i ele&ricity, who feel deeply imprefied in their minds the encomuins due to the honeft publications of Dr. Frank- A 2 lin,