A practical manual of animal magnetism : containing an exposition of the methods employed in producing the magnetic phenomena, with its application to the treatment and cure of diseases / by Alphonse Teste ; translated from the second edition by D. Spillan.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1844
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Credit: A practical manual of animal magnetism : containing an exposition of the methods employed in producing the magnetic phenomena, with its application to the treatment and cure of diseases / by Alphonse Teste ; translated from the second edition by D. Spillan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in me for certain fops who are valued by the cost of their dress. I confess that I indulge the idea of having written a useful book in composing this Manual, the object of which is certainly not to take away from science but to increase the number ot magnetisers. To teach the art of Magnetism—to spread its elements in all classes of society—to make known the immense advantage that humanity must eventually draw from it: such is the com- plex end that I have undertaken in this work. God grant that I may have succeeded. A. T.