In a few days I shall tell all my friends that I have received a letter announcing my aunt's death; and that her demise took place at the very moment when you beheld her death-bed in your mesmeric slumber.
He then performed some more manipulations to plunge his patient into as deep a mesmeric sleep as possible, although she had given no symptom of an inclination to awake throughout the preceding examination.
She was desired to seat herself comfortably in an easy arm-chair; and the Professor then commenced his manipulations, "with a view to produce coma, or mesmeric sleep.
Thank you, I will," answered Ellen, still apparently remaining in a profound mesmeric sleep.
The Times gives a horrible description of some mesmeric experiments by a M.
We suspect that some one has been operating upon the Poor Law Commissioners, for their total want of feeling is a mesmeric phenomenon.
Her touch had a mesmeric effect on his nerves when he could endure it, but nine times out of ten he struck it away.
There was an attempt made to cast ridicule upon it by a very few headed by Mr. Cave Johnson, who proposed an amendment that half the sum should be appropriated to mesmeric experiments.
Mr. Stanly said he should have no objection to the appropriation for mesmeric experiments, provided the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Cave Johnson] was the subject.
Burnett was piercing him with a strange, mesmeric gaze.
It was as though every bit of her loving body would shield the dear one way off in France from this compelling, mesmeric man.
In this brief space Trilby is wooed and won, Svengali asserts his mesmeric power, the marriage of Little Billee is arranged and interrupted by the arrival of his mother, and an elopement is planned and frustrated.
Miss Harned's Trilby, though rather a faint reflection of the original, has the merit of being attractive and womanly, as well as free and frank, and exhibits true pathos in the mesmeric scenes.
When free from mesmeric influence, she lived with him as his daughter, and was quite innocent of any other relation.
Before the mesmeric cure had been commenced I went with my friend to the hospital, and saw the patient.
At this time there was no opportunity of seeing any at the University; for even if a promising mesmeric operator had been to be found, there did not appear to be any one with any disposition to become somnambulistic or clairvoyant.
My friend rebutted all my objections, and at last proved to me that the mere study of the theory would never awaken that faith which was essential, and which could only be attained by witnessing mesmeric experiments.
Never since then have I been able to persuade myself to witness any moremesmeric cures.
Du Maurier was particularly interested in one of these, Virginie Marsaudon, and had a way of putting puzzling questions concerning her faculties and my mesmeric influence.
Is it that the medium exercises some mesmeric influence on her visitors, who are thus made to accept the faces which she wills them to see?
Clairvoyance continued to be regarded as one of the most essential tests of the mesmeric condition, and took a prominent part in public exhibitions.
In speaking of a state of mesmerism as being one of disease, I by no means infer that the mesmeric influence is either the cause or effect of disease, but that only diseased persons are liable to it.
There certainly was a mesmeric influence emanating from those hands, and Arthur felt its power, growing very quiet and at last falling away to sleep, while the soft passes went on, and Lucy held her breath lest she would waken him.
But it is probable that neither Belding nor any others amongst the leading men who, in time, were gathered into the works, realized to what a degree they were animated by the mesmeric influence of Clark.
This faculty was one of his outstanding gifts, no less than his mesmeric and communicative influence.
He had been interested and even thrilled by the doings at St. Marys, but he had never yielded himself completely to Clark's mesmeric influence.
Birch, he reckoned, would be the necessary balance-wheel, and it was safe betting that he would not yield to the mesmeric influence of the man in St. Marys.
It was now an old story with him to watch the faces of men reflect their gradual surrender to the spell of his mesmeric brain.
He felt good for his own job, but very helpless against the mesmeric fascination that the older man might exert if he would.
The most trying moment was passed, and for once the mesmeric influence had failed.
A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized.
We might have a mesmeric coma that might put us in possession of the past, if it can of the future--and gratify curiosity wofully at the expense of what is more valuable than that kind of truth.
A mesmeric painter may take the portrait of Helen of Troy, and you may knock at your twenty neighbours' doors, and find perhaps a greater beauty, especially if chronology be trusted as to her age at the Trojan war.
That accomplished writer, whose veracity no one would impugn, affirms that between this electrical endowment and whatever mesmeric properties he might possess, there is a remarkable relationship and parallelism.
Defn: A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized.
Defn: The power of exciting the organs of the brain by magnetic or mesmeric influence.
Defn: On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
Then the frowzy girl made one or two mysterious mesmeric passes over the sleeping beauty from her head to her feet, to fix her in the iceberg state; then placing the hand of Mrs. S.
I believe that the mesmeric force and the Spiritual force are the same--the only difference being that in one case the producing agent is in a material body, and in the other is out of such a body.
He had reached the conclusion, not only that the chief force employed in producing both the mesmeric and the Spiritualistic entrancement was the same, but also that it was distinct from either electricity or magnetism.
The whole tone of his account, however, indicates that his resistance was in no degree captious, but designed simply to measure the strength and enable him to note the action of mesmeric force.
In his earlier life, when a professor in Switzerland, he had been thrown under the mesmeric spell by the Rev.
Something more must, one should think, have been needed; and if the mesmeric and Pagan oracular ecstasies be identical, this testimony of Jamblichus would lead us to suppose that that something was supplied by the mind.
Strange consideration, if it be the fact, that a few passes of a mesmericoperator should produce the same effects which these multitudes procured through toils so painful and sacrifices to themselves and to society so costly.
Psellus describes a mode of divinition among the Assyrians by a basin, which smacks strongly of the mesmeric practice.
The use of water in communicating an ecstacy similar to the mesmeric lucidity, is largely dwelt on by the mystical writers known as the Neo-Platonists.
In the Colophonian oracle, they were the spectators, not the prophetess, who had need thus to be put under the influence of the mesmeric glamour.
