Observations sur le magnétisme animal

on Animal Magnetism.

useful, its author was able to expatriate himself and be no less respectable for it. As for me, without pretending to set myself up as a judge of what had happened in Germany, I was not unaware that Medicine groans in Vienna under a distressing regime. The slave of a Despot, under the name of President, it is enslaved to the caprices of a single man. If he is at all weak, stubborn, infatuated with systems, or simply susceptible to prejudices, the intrigues there must be intolerable.

I had had no relationship with Mr. Mesmer before his stay in France. There had even been talk of him for several months, without anything bringing us together. Chance would have it that among his patients I had an acquaintance whose honesty could not be suspect to me. It was a man of mature age, of exquisite judgment,