Mesmerian Conversations.

This work, written in the form of familiar conversations, has as its objective to aid the propagation of mesmerism or animal magnetism.

The theoretical part comprises magnetism in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, its renewal by Mesmer and its present state.

In the theoretical and practical part are expounded the various systems, the methods of the principal masters, the processes, the effects, the useful and rational applications of magnetism and the dangers of its employment by inexperienced hands.

Several chapters are particularly consecrated to somnambulism, to lucidity and to ecstasy. The psychological part, the power of the will, that of the imagination, etc., likewise occupy a vast place therein and solicit the attention of those who take seriously the research of truth.

Presenting magnetism in all its simplicity, that is, free of the marvelous and of the exaggeration that contributed to turn away from its study a great number of serious persons, the author hopes that the reading of his book may awaken, in those whom prevention does not blind and who form their opinion according to their own judgment, the desire to search and the hope of finding the key to phenomena wrongly regarded as supernatural, because they are ill understood. The Mesmerian Conversations [Causeries mesmériennes: enseignement élémentaire, histoire, théorie et pratique de magnétisme animal - Google books.] form one octavo volume (Paperback of 212 pages) Price 2 fr., postpaid for all of France, 2 fr. 25.