Observations sur le magnétisme animal

cred duties. This language, very respectable in its principle, has been used so often and so out of place that it is worn out to the point of ridicule; but I will say that these considerations and similar ones have always had the greatest influence over my mind.

For these reasons, I have been very occupied for many years with the means best suited to remove the abuses that have been introduced into Medicine. Finally, about six months ago, I conceived the firm resolution to draft my ideas in writing, so that they could be placed before the eyes of the Public. I set myself to work; but this work, subordinated to daily occupations that it would have been unpardonable for me to neglect, was infinitely delayed by the continued attention I gave to the treatments of M. Mesmer Mr. Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer, the founder of the theory of animal magnetism; so