Title: Human Magnetism: Its Claims to Dispassionate Inquiry : Being an Attempt to Show the Utility of Its Application for the Relief of Human Suffering
Publisher: HardPress Ltd
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0371878705
ISBN 13: 9780371878705
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New
Weight: 526 grams

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Human Magnetism: Its Claims To Dispassionate Inquiry: Being An Attempt To Show The Utility Of Its Application For The Relief Of Human Suffering by William Newnham is a mid-19th-century treatise that advocates careful, benevolent inquiry into the phenomena of animal magnetism. Newnham argues that medical skepticism toward magnetism has impeded its progress and that the alleged phenomena—somnambulism, clairvoyance, precognition, and related states—are real but must be understood within natural laws rather than as miracles or satanic acts. The book surveys the history from Mesmer to 19th-century investigators, defends the reliability of witness testimony using probabilistic reasoning, and calls for rigorous observation, ethical practice, and clinical application by qualified physicians. It distinguishes magnetism from superstition and from quackery, cautions against sensational exhibitions, and emphasizes relief of suffering as its primary aim. The volume discusses objections from medical men, the dangers of perversion, and the ways magnetism could augment medicine in nervous and functional disorders while acknowledging limits and avoiding universal cures. It also offers expositions on clairvoyance, prevision, phreno-magnetism, extase, and other phenomena, always under the banner of dispassionate inquiry and benevolent science.

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