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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    West. His plan of operations was the most simple, and his experi- ments were the most successful and satisfactory of any that I had seen. His mode of producing the cataleptic state by the use of coin, was a great relief and aid to the magnetizer, as it enabled him much more easily to produce the magnetic effects, and to multiply them in a given time far beyond all former precedent. I first met this gentle- man in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1845. Anxious to investigate the subject more thoroughly, I invited him to Oxfor/3, and procured for him a class of fifty persons, for instruction in the art of magnetizing. This seemed to him a novel movement, and was his first effort at teaching in this way, though Prof. De Bonneville had done something of the same kind in Cincinnati and other places. Mr. Spencer's experiments were very excellent and interesting; but he had not yet digested any definite principles of the science, nor any systematic mode of instruc- tion in the art. He had used magnetism as a remedial agent, only to relieve headache. After his departure, some thirty gentlemen formed themselves into a society, for the purpose of further investigations. To me was as- signed the duty of conducting the experiments. We met but a few evenings. The majority of the members not appearing to appreciate the subject as I thought they should, I withdrew from the society, and selected a few of those whom I considered the best fitted, by talent, education, and mental and moral habits, to aid me, by forming a circle for investigation. Among these were Professors Scott, Moffitt, and Mathews, of Miami University, and other intelligent and worthy citizens. This investigation proved to be, to me, a source of much interest, instruction and gratification. In October and November, 1845, a collecting business called me to various parts of the country. Wherever I stopped I felt inclined to make experiments, in sitting rooms, parlors, etc., for the amusement of persons present. And, when I came to singing schools, I would make a request of the teachers to dismiss early, and allow me to amuse them and their pupils with magnetic experiments. I thus continued for several weeks, until I found that I was entirely neglect- ing my business. But, observing that persons magnetized, were often immediately relieved from nervous, rheumatic, and many other affec- tions, I inferred that magnetism involved a curative principle, which, if systematically developed and applied, might be made extensivelv and powerfully efficient in the treatment of disease in general. T