On Animal Magnetism

such as gravity, cohesion, elasticity, irritability, and electricity.

I maintained that, just as the alternating effects of gravity produce in the sea the perceptible phenomenon we call high and low tide original: "flux & reflux", the INTENSITY AND REMISSION of the aforementioned properties, being subject to the action of the same principle, occasion in living bodies original: "corps animés" alternating effects analogous to those experienced by the sea. Through these considerations, I established that the animal body, being subject to the same action, also experienced a kind of ebb and flow. I supported this theory with various examples of periodic revolutions The author refers to cyclical biological or astronomical patterns. I named the property of the animal body, which renders it susceptible to the action of the celestial bodies and the earth, ANIMAL MAGNETISM; I explained, by means of this magnetism, the revolutions