Uttered my name, she started into life again, and seemed unable to die, - the magnetic relation between us being not yet broken. She often called loudly for me, though I was absent at the time and once, when she appeared dead, someone having In Mesmerism - a work for which Poe had high regard. Thursday, one week since the operation, the wound is entirely healed, and she has resumed her duties in the family.Īnother probable source is a statement in the fourth edition (London, 1844) of Chauncey Hare Townshend's Facts Since that time the patient has recovered rapidly, and to-day, Now shown the tumor, at which she seemed much surprised and gratified. had previously stated to her would be the case.
“No, the operation was to be performed the next day,” as Dr. Tired.” “Had she suffered during her sleep?” She said, “No.” “Had she been cut?” She replied I immediately inquired, “How she felt?” She answered, “rather Taylor, Parmly, and others being present. Time indicated, she was demagnetized by Dr.
She was still sleeping, but at quarter past four, the went again to the house at ten minutes past four. Bodinier seemed to be operating rather upon a cadaver than on a living being. continued to sleep on quietly and calmly through the whole of it.ĭr. was the size of a pullet's egg, and the operation occupied two and a Descending to the basement, we found the patient Parmly the dentist, and one or two others. Alfaro, a highlyĭistinguished physician from Madrid, Mr. A few moments after, we were joined by Drs. I returned to the house at quarter past one, in company with Prof. Patient at twelve o’clock, still sleeping soundly. State some ten or twelve times previously, with a view to secure her entire insensibility.
Minutes - say at twenty minutes of twelve - she was sound asleep. To make what are termed “magnetic passes,” and so successfully, that in five minutes the eyelids drooped, and in ten After an inquiry or two as to her health, and feeling her pulse, which was natural, Dr. She seemed extremely bright and nowise sleepy, with a rosyĬheek, black eyes, and dark hair. Patient came into the basement room and seated herself in an easy chair. After being in the house about five minutes, the Halt-past one), in order to witness the process of putting the female to sleep. Chambers street, previous to the hour appointed for the operation (which was “while she was in a magnetic sleep,” he having operated twice under similar circumstances in Paris, and with Vital Bodinier, recently from Paris, to witness theĮxtirpation of a tumor from the neck of a female, which he said would be performed without her consciousness, and without suffering, On the 16th of January I was requested by my friend Dr.
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