Observations sur le magnétisme animal

cumstance so public in my life, it was astonishing that I did not give a public account of my conduct. I admit having eluded answering positively. In fact, I was working from then on to show them the value I place on their advice, and I hope that this explanation will satisfy them.

After this preamble, which I do not believe to be out of place, I enter into the subject.

Never, at first glance, has a discovery lent itself so much as that of Animal Magnetism to incredulity, ridicule, sarcasm, reasoning, and jokes of every kind. Both the true and false scholars, the educated people, the ignorant, and the common folk, were bound to be equally revolted by the proposition of curing diseases by sight and touch.