Report of the experiments on animal magnetism, made by a committee of the Medical Section of the French Royal Academy of Sciences : read at the meeting of the 21st and 28th of June, 1831 / translated and now for the first time published; with an historical and explanatory introduction, and an appendix by J.C. Colquhoun.

  • Académie nationale de médecine (France)
Date:
1833
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Credit: Report of the experiments on animal magnetism, made by a committee of the Medical Section of the French Royal Academy of Sciences : read at the meeting of the 21st and 28th of June, 1831 / translated and now for the first time published; with an historical and explanatory introduction, and an appendix by J.C. Colquhoun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 xo 52 APPENDIX. x sions of sight, hearing, &e. are conveyed, and to which the material organs are merely subservient? And if we are disposed to make this admission, can we deny the possibility of impressions being communicated to this internal sense, in some extraordinary manner, with- out the necessary intervention of the usual organs ? This is a question which is capable of being solved by experience; and if the cases I have adduced in this paper have been accurately observed and faithfully reported, of which there seems no reason to doubt, the question may be considered as having been already satisfactorily decided in the affirmative. If the phe- nomena observed are calculated to excite our wonder, and to call forth our scepticism, if they appear to be inexplicable and irreconcileable with any of our pre- vious notions, let us remember that the cause of this may be found in the narrowness and imperfection of our preconceived systems; and this consideration should lead us to a careful review of the principles of our knowledge, rather than to an obstinate and irra- tional denial of the facts presented to us by experience. Nil adeo magnum, nec tam mirabile quidquam, Quod non paullatim minuant mirarier omnes. Desine quapropter, novitate exterritus ipsa, Expuere ex animo rationem ; sed magis acri Judicio perpende : et, si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus; aut, si falsum est, adcingere contra. LUCRETIUS. THE END. me EDINBURGH, PRINTED BY JOHN STARK, OLD ASSEMBLY CLOSE.