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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 



