Keely's facts and scientific miracles : a collection of reports of cures of remarkable cases of various and obstinate forms of disease through the instrumentality of mental electricity / by Isaac I. Keely.

  • Keely, Isaac I.
Date:
1856
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    multitudes together in this city, as are now drawn nightly by Mr. Keely. The experiments last night were wonderful, and we presume that none who saw them doubted that they were precisely what they seemed to be. We have before us bushels of such testimonies as the above, to the power of Dr. Keely over the nervous systems of the subjects of his operations, and of his consequent ability to heal all their diseases. If the reader will not believe these, neither would he believe though one rose from the dead. He should be magnetized by Mr. K. or some of his pupils, and filled with gout, dropsy, rheumatism and tic douloureux, till he should be compelled to say, Hearing may be be- lieving, but feeling is knowing. Dr. Keely desires to say, in this connection, that he feels a deep and lasting gratitude toward the numerous editors who, in every place in which he lectured and -cured disease, came out, unsolicited, and so nobly set forth, in the face of strong prejudices in high places, often to their injury, the claims of a stranger and his much abused science. Many of them were threatened, by the advocates of Allopathy and those of sectarian religion, with the withdrawal of friendship and patronage if they should continue to sustain what was called quack- ery and infidelity; but these noble knights of the tripod, despised all such threats, and battled manfully for the truth, and its humble advo- cate. They could not see the propriety of abusing a philanthropist and misrepresenting his labors, when, it was daily and unequivocally manifest that those labors were the accomplishment of that, for suffer- ing humanity, which their revilers had never been able to effect—the cure of what the faculty had pronounced incurable diseases, and by means which the ministry had been commanded but had neglected to use— Looking on them, laying on them of hands and pronounc- ing then cured. To none is he more indebted for this noble countenance and support in his efforts for the relief of the sick, the great end and aim of all his labors, than to Geo. D. Prentice, Esq., Editor of the Louisville Journal. Though Mr. Prentice, at first, like too many others had strong prejudices against Mesmerism, yet, unlike them, he sought light on the subject, and, when he found it, he did not hide it under a bushel, but boldly set it forth for the benefit of others, and thus greatly aided the lecturerer in his benevolent efforts, and secured his deep and everlasting gratitude.