Mesmerism, or System of Interactions

the purely extraordinary phenomena, overlooked the essential basis upon which these were founded, and thus was able to posit only that which was dark and vacillating.

However, the moment had come when I considered it my duty to break my silence and to share noteworthy experiences regarding the effect of magnetism and Somnambulismus sleepwalking/mesmeric trance. I began with a case of the resuscitation of a drowned child, the report of which ) See Jahrbuch der Staats-Arzneikunde* (Yearbook of State Forensic Medicine), edited by Dr. Joh. H. Kopp, et al., Volume I. was indeed well received, but by far did not find the attention it deserved, and as far as I know, not at all the imitation that was as urgently required as it was necessary, and which can become so healing and beneficial in its consequences. Other reports followed, even suggestions regarding the nature of magnetic effects. **) In the Askläpieion.

Meanwhile, I had finally obtained several of the earlier French writings on magnetism, and above all, some of our author's own smaller writings, which, since he always had them printed at his own expense and distributed them, did not actually enter the book trade.