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EFFECTS OF MESMERISM ON BRUTES. 
The animals magnetised by Dr. Wilson were cats, dogs, goats, 
pigs, horses, calves, a lioness, leopards, and elephants ; turkeys, 
geese, ducks, fowls, and macaws; a dozen small fish — roach, dace, 
gudgeons, and loaches. The magnetic operation consisted, in mak- 
ing passes with the hands. 
The time required to induce sleep was very variable. With cats 
and dogs the shortest time mentioned is five minutes — usually ten 
minutes or a quarter of an hour — occasionally an hour. If the ani- 
mal was sleepy beforehand, the passes took effect almost immedi- 
ately : if excited and quarrelsome, the time required was longer 
than usual ; while at large, the dog Vick and cat Fuzzy, “ both of 
which had generally before been very soon affected, resisted the 
passes for about an hour,” but on being both put together under a 
gauze dish-cover they were very soon sent to sleep. When chained, 
the dog Mungo only yawned and looked stupid, and snatched at the 
operator’s hand several times, “ but not viciously.” On being put 
under a cage during the passes, Mungo yawned twice, fell asleep 
in half an hour, and continued sleeping for an hour. With the 
pigs an hour and three-quarters, with the goat half-an-hour were 
required. 
The effects produced on cats and dogs were sleep in almost 
every instance; convulsive twitchings during the sleep in six 
dogs; plaintive whining and moaning, as if from dreaming, in 
three. The immediate effects during the passes before sleep en- 
sued were, in dogs, restlessness, playfulness, yawning, stretching, 
and, in four, trembling. In a little red spaniel, twitching convulsive 
motions of the neck, fore and hind legs, “ followed in succession 
as the passes were made from the head over all the body ; and 
when the operator ceased moving his hand, and held it steadily at 
a short distance (from the dog), the trembling of its head and limbs 
became general. At intervals its eyes closed, and it seemed to 
be asleep ; still the passes convulsed its limbs, but less strongly.” 
In cats, furiousness, irritability, quarrelsomeness, and in one con- 
stant licking of the body, ensued. The goat was put to sleep, but 
“ only slightly .” In the horse was yawning, heaviness of the eyes, 
twinkling of the eyelids at first, but the eyes kept steadily open to- 
wards the last ; licking of the hind leg. In the calf, restlessness, 
deep, lengthened breathing, and rubbing of the head against the 
legs of the operator. In pigs, plaintive, shrill squeaking, sweat- 
ing about the ears and neck, and in patches over the body; “ the 
other excretions were also as much affected, and at each pass 
