An essay on the influence of the imagination and passions in the production and cure of diseases / by Arthur Jacob, M.D. ... to which is added, a translation of a memoir by Dr. C. Pfeufer ... on the cures performed by the operations of the Prince de Hohenlohe.

  • Jacob, Arthur, 1790-1874.
Date:
1823
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Credit: An essay on the influence of the imagination and passions in the production and cure of diseases / by Arthur Jacob, M.D. ... to which is added, a translation of a memoir by Dr. C. Pfeufer ... on the cures performed by the operations of the Prince de Hohenlohe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    the same time a healthy life. There is one amusing and instructive fact connected with this man's history. Mesmer^ whose feats are pre- sently to be noticed, was invited by Prince Maximilian of Bavaria to come to Munich, to assist in deciding on the miracles of Gass- ner, and the exorcisms for which the priest- hood at that time claimed credit. He succeeded by means of his animal magnetism, in presence of the Prince and his whole court, in working fully as great cures as any which had been boasted of by the priest, and he explained these cures as the effects, not of any supernatural interference, but as produced by changes in the magnetism of those individuals who had been subjected to these experiments. For this piece of service he was made a member of the Munich academy, and from that period all priests v/lio venture to exorcise are subject to banishment. The miracles of the Abb6 Paris have been re- peatedly alluded to by writers on this subject. I should have placed them before those of Gassner in chronological order. This man was a Parisian ecclesiastic, who led a life of seclusion and morti- fication. He dedicated his time to prayer and reli- gious observances, unless vvhat was spent in weav- ing stockings for the poor. He died in 1727 ; and his brother having erected a tomb to him in the little church yard of St. Medard, the poor whom he had assisted, and the women whom he had in-