This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1837. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SECTION IV. Miss Cynthia Ann Gleason. The experiments which I have performed on Miss G. and published in several newspapers, have been doubted ; even considered, by many, as the results of a concerted plan. Let the unfair and ungenerous think and say what they please. We can no more prevent the human tongue from exercising its evil activity than stop the impetuous and desolating course of a torrent. Whatever opinion may be entertained of me, I feel it my duty to pay a due tribute of justice to virtue, under whatever shape, and in whatsoever circumstances it presents itself. My word does not weigh much, perhaps, in the balance of1 human estimation, but it is worth its price in the eyes of Him who searches all hearts, and knows the value of all things. These are the feelings which induce me to offer the few following particulars concerning Miss Gleason. This woman was affected, for nearly ten years, with a very serious and troblesome complaint of the stomach, which had carried her several times to the door of the grave. All the resources of medicine had been powerless against the disease; her existence was wretched to the extreme/and, being deprived of sleep, her nights were still more intolerable for her than the day time. Such was the condition of her health when I was introduced to her, by her physician. I magnetized her, and from that very first operation she began to feel better, and has not ceased to improve until the present moment. She is now almost completely cured, although she has used no other remedy than magnetism. After a residence of two months in Pawtucket, I announced to her that I was going to leave for Boston, and had no intention of returning to Rhode Island again. On the very moment I announced to her my departure, she received, from ...
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