'4G2 Olservalions on the Letter of Mr. Fricdlaiidtr 



fpiire the confidence of patients of that class of personc who 

 think it impossiljle to relieve them without S'^''»K them some 

 medidne to take. In the next place, Mr. Wolfart's institution 

 not being intended for the trial of experiments, hut for the cure 

 of disease ; this gentleman made use of all the means uhich l.is 

 previous studies afforded for the attainment of that end, in the 

 quickest vcfiM. Beinp; perfectly aware of the effects of the several 

 medicines, and of the benefit arising from their association to 

 magnetism in the cure of certain diseases, he would not renounce 

 their aid, to satisfy those persons who would have magnetism 

 treated like the physical sciences, without regard to the cases of 

 those who submit themselves to its action. Besides, the establish- 

 ment of Mr. VVoU'art was not a criterion at tlie time of Mr. F.'s 

 visit : it was not under the direction of a medical practitioner ; 

 ;:nd though Mr. Wolfart i>crmitted such of the faculty as had 

 the curiosity to go into it, it was neither to instruct them in his 

 system, nor to try to make proselytes to his doctrine : for truth 

 will in the cud never fail to establish herself. In short, it must 

 he remarked, — and this entirely removes the objection to which I 

 liave been replying, — that in the numl)er of persons who presented 

 themselves, internal or external remedies were not administered 

 to a fourth part of them. There is no doubt that from hence- 

 forth Mr. Woltart will altogether give up their use ; his insti- 

 tution being now raised to the rank of a medical academy de- 

 stined to the purposes of instruction, magnetism will be exclu- 

 sivelv adopted, in order to preserve the purity of the experi- 

 ments: but for that reason he will send out to another treatment 

 such of his patients as may require the union of medicine in the 

 aid of magnetism. As to the credit enjoyed by magnetism at 

 Berlin as a meansof cure, it maybe said that it increases every day, 

 and that the most eminent piiysicians of that city hold this to be 

 one of the most efficacious remedies yet known. They are far 

 from considering it a specific in all cases ; nor do they resort to 

 it in such slight affections as yield easily to the connnon medi- 

 cines; but numerous examples, observations collected from all 

 quarters, have at length placed beyond all doubt that it is,;i 

 valuable resource in different disorders, and, in many which arc 

 bevond the reach of medicine, that it is of inestimable utility, 

 it frequently happens that Drs. Hufeland, Hcim, Formey, and 

 other celebrated physicians, send to Mr. \\'olfart's institution 

 patients who have been long under their hands without deriving 

 benefit, and these persons leave the institution entirely cured by 

 the sole application of magnetism. Nor are these cases rare : 

 I have often witnessed them, and every inhabitant of Berlin may 

 assure himself of their truth. That magnetism does not always 



cure ; 



