Mesmerism, or System of Interactions

the theory of excitation, as well as the various ingenious applications of Schellingianismus Schellingian philosophy to medicine, became clear to me, I hope I may be permitted to believe, simply through this. I always sensed in magnetism the fundamental law which, like a common bond of nature, must entwine and connect all these different theories: namely, the common truth which, despite apparent contradiction and even if buried in a heap of false views, was merely expressed differently in them. In Schelling’s philosophy of nature, this fundamental law confronted me more closely through the prevailing unity that merely divides itself into multiplicity, and I began to work on medicine in this sense. However, empty formulas, as they appeared soon enough in an unbridled corruption and confusion of language, over-figurative and far too hieroglyphic for the simple, grand hieroglyph of nature, were very repulsive to me, and I avoided them as much as I was able.

It is important to note that all the various individual investigations in the natural sciences belonging to the last half of the previous century, as well as many discoveries, namely the discovery of so-called metal electricity made by chance by Galvani Luigi Galvani, certainly provided