Test of Mesmerism
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Mesmerism, Animal Magnetism, Heterodoxy, Politics, Government |
Reports on a 'strong proof' of the 'much disputed science' of mesmerism—the correct prediction, by a boy in a mesmeric state, that the Prime Minister Robert Peel would not discontinue income taxes. | |
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