...and at length it was clear that even going down one flight of stairs was imprudent. From that time, 1 lay still ; and by means of this undisturbed quiet,...replied that Mesmerism might perhaps give me partial \ Pretensions of Mesmerism as a Therapeutic Agent. 483 relief. I thought it right — and still think...

...all hope of affecting the " disease, — of doing more than keeping me up, in collateral re" spects, to the highest practicable point This was no surprise...— to wear out all other means first. It was not, hewever, " for the reason that the testimony might be thus rendered wholly " unquestionable, — though...

...immediately before I made trial of Mesmerism. If, at any time during my illness, I had been asked wilh serious purpose, whether I believed there was no resource...that Mesmerism might perhaps give me partial relief. After my medical friend's avowal of his hopelessness, however, I felt myself not only at liberty, but...

...reputation which surrounds them. Miss Harriet Martincau, in publishing her own case, naively remarks : — " If at any time during my illness I had been asked,...that Mesmerism might perhaps give me partial relief." — (Letlert on Mesmerism, 1845, p. 4.) No wonder, therefore, that when at length it •«•«.«...

...publishing her own case, naively remarks : — ''If at any time during my illness I had been af-keo1, with serious purpose, whether I believed there was...that Mesmerism might perhaps give me partial relief." — (Letters on '!••• In recent times more systematic attempts have been made in this way to...

...suggest, and the most indefatigable humanity and family affection devise : but nothing could prevail beyond mere alleviation. My dependence on opiates...right — to wear out all other means first." "It never presented itself to me as possible that disease so long and deeply fixed could be removed ; and...