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exactly the part that is magnetized; when their eyes are 
bandaged, they locate these same sensations by chance, 
sometimes in parts very far away from those to which 
the magnetizer is directing his attention. The patient, 
whose eyes are covered, often feels marked effects at a 
time when they are not magnetizing him, and remains, 
on the contrary, quite passive while they are magnetizing 
him, without his being aware of it. 
Persons of all classes offer similar anomalies. An in- 
structed physician, subjected to these experiments, “ feels 
effects whilst nothing is being done, and often does not 
feel effects while he is being acted upon. On one occa- 
sion, thinking that they had been magnetizing him for 
ten minutes, this same doctor fancied that he felt a heat 
in his lumbi, which he compared to that of a stove.” 
Sensations thus felt, when no magnetizing was ex- 
erted, must evidently have been the effect of imagina- 
tion. 
The commissioners were too strict logicians to confine 
themselves with these experiments. They had estab- 
lished that imagination, in some individuals, can occasion 
pain, and heat—even a considerable degree of heat—in 
all parts of the body; but practical female Mesmerizers 
did more; they agitated certain people to that pitch, that 
they fell into convulsions. Could the effect of imagina- 
tion go so far? 
Some new experiments entirely did away with these 
doubts. 
A young man was taken to Franklin’s garden at Passy, 
and when it was announced to him that Deslon, who had 
taken him there, had magnetized a tree, this young man 
ran about the garden, and fell down in convulsions, but it 
was not under the magnetized tree: the crisis seized him 
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