Observations sur le magnétisme animal

decide that I would be extremely guilty if, in a matter so important, I had deliberately taken so much trouble to deceive them, without any interest other than that of deceiving them or making people talk about me.

I expect from their justice that before giving in to this extreme, they will weigh who I am, or who I can be.

I am a Physician. By profession, the subject I treat is within my competence. By profession, I must occupy myself with everything that relates to the preservation and the health of my fellow men. By profession, I am placed to know the insufficiency of the methods commonly used in Medicine. By profession, I must have a profound feeling for human miseries. As a man and as a Physician, they cannot be indifferent to me.

I will not say that all these considerations impose upon me so many sa-