The Mesmerist's Manual of Phenomena and Practice: With Directions for Applying Mesmerism to the Cure of Diseases, and the Methods of Producing Mesmeric Phenomena, Intended for Domestic Use and the Ins - Hardcover

George Barth

9780656852093: The Mesmerist's Manual of Phenomena and Practice: With Directions for Applying Mesmerism to the Cure of Diseases, and the Methods of Producing Mesmeric Phenomena, Intended for Domestic Use and the Ins

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ISBN 10: 0656852097 ISBN 13: 9780656852093

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from The Mesmerist's Manual of Phenomena and Practice: With Directions for Applying Mesmerism to the Cure of Diseases, and the Methods of Producing Mesmeric Phenomena, Intended for Domestic Use and the Instruction of Beginners

IN presenting this little Manual to the public, I seek to offer something which may be useful to those who desire a knowledge of the subject. I do not, for a moment, presume to say that I can teach that which is not already known. I claim nothing as a discoverer, - I am merely a retailer of other men's dis coveries. That which a man learns from others and then reduces to practical experiment, verifying and understanding by personal observation, he makes his own, - and may again teach or set it forth without being charged as a mere plagiarist. Mesmerism was well understood and practised, even in this country, before I was born; all relating to it which I now know and can tell has been already ascertained; it is therefore not personally a fault that I cannot teach anything not previously known; The information which I try to give in the following pages I know to be truth; the reader will judge if it be given plainly or obscurely; I can only hope for a favourable verdict if found worthy of it. I make no pretension to elegance of composition, seek not to produce a literary work, but am content if it be found plain and practical, and consequently useful. If I am charged with twice telling or repeating the same thing too often - be it so; I would rather tell too well than be obscure, or not tell plainly enough that which it is important the learner should clearly apprehend.

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From the Back Cover:

The following pages are not written for the instruction of mesmerisers who have more knowledge of mesmerism than I have; I do not presume to teach any such ; I write to instruct those who are desirous of learning the practice of the art, and have no better means of gaining the requisite knowledge.

Some mesmerists have a notion that there is little connected with the practice of mesmerism which requires teaching - that if persons are only shown how to make downward passes, they can be safely left to do as they may with a patient; others, equally conversant with the subject, are of opinion that all who attempt the practice of mesmerism should receive sufficient preliminary instruction - to this latter opinion I decidedly adhere.

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With directions for applying mesmerism to the cure of diseases, and the methods of producing mesmeric phenomena: intended for domestic use and the instruction of beginners.

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