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disease coming under the head of chronic, many of these patients 

 iiaving first tried the ordinary method of cure without success. 



" The results attained by this force in those diseases incident to 

 women, especially entitle it to the consideration of the profession 

 as an auxiliary treatment in such cases. 



"To conclude: Animal magnetism is a scientific fact. If it 

 be not a fact, 'then do no facts exist in any department of science.' 

 That it has proved itself a most powerful therapeutic means, is also 

 a fact. Such being the case, the duty of the medical profession in 

 regard to this matter is perfectly plain." 



How to Magnetize Select a good subject. 



1. One mark of such a person is very fine, soft hair; another 

 is fair complexion, with light, full and expressive eyes and regular 

 and handsome features. Debility of health, also, predisposes to 

 magnetic susceptibility. 



2. Choose a person younger and physically weaker than your- 

 self and by all means of an opposite or different temperament. 



3. Select a kind, well disposed and intelligent person. 



4. Sit beside or before your subject, preserving an easy and 

 tranquil frame of mind. 



5. Be sure that he submits himself passively to your influence 

 and thinks of nothing foreign to the purpose and occasion. He 

 may either close his eyes or fix them steadily upon yours. 



6. Hold his hands crossed, his left with your left and his right 

 with your right, the balls of your thumbs touching the balls of 

 his. 



7. Have perfect confidence in your ability to put him to sleep 

 in a short time. 



8. Use your will, earnestly but calmly, to effect this object, 

 fixing your eyes upon a point midway between his. If convenient, 

 sit so that his extended arms may rest upon your knees. 



9. Hold his thumbs until you feel that the heat in both pairs 

 of hands is equal. This will occur within ten minutes. 



10. Begin the magnetic process by holding your hands upon 

 his head, lightly, so that the palms shall touch the temples and the 

 tips of the fingers rest upon the top of his head; or place your 

 palms on his eyes and let the fingers rest upon the forehead. Incline 

 your forehead towards his ; and to avoid fatigue rest your elbows on 

 your knees. 



11. Continue thus to charge his head until his eyelids close 

 involuntarily and firmly. However difficult a subject, if you per- 

 severe and he does not resist, he must at last succumb. It may take 

 five minutes or half an hour, or as many sittings of the same length 

 of time. It is useless to proceed until you do close his eyelids and 

 there is no better or speedier method than this. 



12. When you have succeeded in closing his eyelids so that 

 he cannot open them without your permission, point your extended 

 fingers, for a short time, in succession at his eyes, forehead, and the 



