To the Reader,

the Editor.

Through a trust, the full extent of whose worthiness I appreciate, I find myself in a position to let the present work come to light. May the editor be permitted to consult with the reader regarding the publication itself, the portion of the work that fell to him, as well as the mindset and the mood that the doctrine developed in Mesmerism a theory of healing through a universal magnetic fluid requires, by means of a few words that seem necessary.

After I had convinced myself for more than 16 years, through conducted experiments and facts that no vain theorizing can undo, of the real existence of an interaction mutual influence existing between living organisms, in such a way that healing phenomena can be induced in the sick which deviate from the ordinary state and the standard derived therefrom, I also soon convinced myself that

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