Mesmerism in India

TO THE

REV. JAMES ESDAILE, D. D.

MY DEAR FATHER,

        However new and strange the subject of this work may be to you, I am sure that it will give you pleasure to know that I have introduced—and I hope I may say established—a new and powerful means of relieving human suffering among the people original: "natives" of Bengal.

        I will soon determine to what extent other groups of people original: "varieties of mankind" are capable of benefiting from this natural curative power, as I have been ordered to join the army in the field and will depart tomorrow by dâk A system of transport in British India using relays of travelers or mail-carriers on horses or in carriages., a journey of eleven hundred miles!

HOOGHLY, Feb. 1st, 1846.