Observations sur le magnétisme animal

Observations

and who joined to the most easy eloquence a rare precision. He had, moreover, made a long and unhappy experience of our insufficiency in the art of treating many diseases, having passed through the hands of the most celebrated figures in Medicine that France contains. I begged him, from our first meeting, to settle my opinion on what I should believe or reject. He obligingly lent himself to my questions, confirmed to me in large part what I had heard said, and taught me facts so surprising and so new to me, that I would have been tempted to believe nothing if the witness had been récusable objectionable or unreliable.

Some time later, I paid this person a courtesy visit. It was morning: I found him in his bed. The conversation turned again to his treatment. He re-