Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and other commissioners, charged by the King of France, with the examination of the animal magnetism, as now practised at Paris

The subject of the following pamphlet has excited the extremest attention in France, has for years filled their Journals and Mercures, and has employed some of their best pens a...

1. That the touch frequently employed in his method for a considerable time, and on regions extremely sensible, such as those of the stomach, is of itself capable of producing e...

Indeed M. Deslon has never insisted upon these transient impressions, he did not think they were to be offered in evidence; on the contrary he expressly assured the commissioner...

The heat that M. M---- felt in the patella, is an effect too slight and fugitive to authorise any conclusions. It may be suspected that it proceeded from the cause already desca...

It is proper to observe that neither of these subjects were touched in any manner; their pulse was not even felt, that it might not be possible to say that the magnetic fluid wa...

If it be objected that the touch is not always necessary to these effects, it may be replied, that the imagination may be sufficiently fertile in resources to produce them all b...

[5] “Valentine Greatrakes, esq; was a native of Afane, in the kingdom of Ireland. We are told, that one day he was conscious to a wonderful internal revolution, and at the same...