Practical Instruction on Animal Magnetism

faculties for healing or relieving the ills of our fellow beings. It is to you that I owe the knowledge I have acquired, that which I have disseminated, and the small amount of good I have had the happiness to perform.

Deleuze was a naturalist and librarian at the Garden of Plants in Paris. He became one of the most influential and level-headed proponents of magnetism, following Puységur’s "spiritual" approach rather than Mesmer's more mechanical one.