Punch,  1 (1841), 28.

Animal Magnetism

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary

Subjects:

Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism, Government, Political Economy


    Responds to a report in The Times of Charles Lafontaine, who mesmerised a boy and deprived him of all sensation. Suspects that somebody has mesmerised the Poor Law Commission because they show a 'total want of feeling'.



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