The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

MISS MA.RTINEAU ON MESMERISAL

In the Athenceum Miss Martineau continues her let‘•:.
upon mesmerism. The present portion of this comonrie
cation is devoted to the case of a young girl, who
under the mesmeric influence, had visions, and predicted
events in an extraordinary manner. Miss Mirtiller
gives this girl a high charactir, and seems to think:set
quite different, from the truthfulness and con-istenelrs-e
her statements, from the usual run of sonambults•
first occasion of her being mesmeri-ed was while suffer=
severe pain in the heal and itrflamation of the eve.
mesmerist was Miss Martineau's maid, who, it will be
remembered; operated on the Pt herself, and it is re'
lated that after being mesmerise , the pain and inflajnv
tion ceased, and the general health of the patient 1.03'
proved so wonderfully as to attract very general notice.
While in this state of trance, the patient described the
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disease of her
.eye as structural; which will prevent 1
being entirely removed. It seems that when awoke 01
this trance, the girl had no knowledge of what she bed
said, except on one occasion, and then she said she t!i
been dreaming of what she bad heard in church regarding
the nature and destiny of men. This girl bed the poret
of telling when she would awake from her sleep, which iS
a common power with those under mesmeric influence'
We pass from Miss Martineau's introduction to this cam
to the necerar circumstances attending it. She says
" It soon became evident that one of her strongeel
powers was the discernment of disease, its condition anu
remedies. She cleared up her own case first, prescribing
for herself very fluently. It was curious to see, on her
awaking, the deference and obedience with which she rel.(
ceived from us the prescriptions with which she hose
had just furnished us. They succeeded ; and so did ;
•
miler efforts on my behalf. I cannot here detail the won"
derful accuracy with which she related, without any Pt.
sible knowledge of my life ten and twenty years ago, !":
circumstances of the origin and progress of my ill-bean°
of the unavailing use of medical treatment for five Yestit
and the operation of mesmerism upon it of late. use:
little fact will serve our purpose better. Soon after suw-
was first mesmerised, I was undergoing my final sever-
ance from opiates—a serious matter to one who had de:
pended so long and so desperately upon them. As I bare
said, I got through the day pretty well ; but the flier,'',
were intolerable, from- pain and nervous irritations, wide
mads it impossible tq rest for two minutes togetier'e
After four such nights, I believe my mesmerist's fr,rtitifli
e
and my own would have given way together, and
should have breueht the laudanum bottle to light Wl'
but for the blight idea, Let us ask J!' She s rid at 011
what my sufferings bad been, and declared that I lo'n"
sleep more and more by degrees, if I took—what was es d
contrary to her own ordinary ideas of what was right an
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rational ideas of right as to mine—ale at dinner, and ilc`_
a wine glrss of brandy in water at night. I refused ter
Prescription till reminded—' Remember, she has tlel
be n wrong.' I obeyed ; the fact being kept secret be-
t een us two, in order to try, every evening, J.'s kir";
ledge and opinion. She always spoke and advised, in s
confident familiarity with incidents known only to us tsc''
and carried me steadily through the struggle. I los.t
miseries, and recovered my sleep, night by night, till, ats
the end of the week, I was quite well, without Stanulant
sedative. Nothing can be more remote from .I.'s oral:
nary knowledge and thought than the structure of thi
human body, and the remedies for disease; and though of
was well aware how common the exercise of this kind
insi:ht is in sonambules—how it is used abroad rinsed
auxiliary to medical treatment—l was not less sorten
by the readiness and peremptoriness with which a Per_
in J.'s position, declared, and gave directions about Renes
which she ie e,hoilv ignorant of an hour after, and was'
during the whole of her life before."
Ws relate the statements given by Miss Martineau as
briefly as possible without giving an opinion as to their
correctness. The shove certainly is very curious, and not
less so is the circumstance she relates of children under
mesmeric influence having the power to discourse about
the Scriptures without having any previous knowledge of
them, if only mesmerised by a clergymanl The patient
stated in the course of a sleep, that the light she saw wag
beyond whnt was seen on earth, that it was prllaced.bt
the three powers of the soul, the mind, and the vital
powers of the body. She then stated that the mind sin
the body died, but the soul lived, being self-existent, an.
independent of either. Being asked the relation 0S the•
soul to God after this statement. the patient was soni,e;
what perplexed, but said it was by him reunitA to tn.
body, at the same time expressing a strong WWI, rie 31,
belief in this truth. This point is fortunately, we Ow
carried no further, the mesmerist, at the critical moment
changing the ideas of his patient, a faculty on his Perk;
which to us is about the most wonderful in the wlll
process. Miss Martineau herself relates that the girl in,
been talking about the day of judgment—a fact which trie;
easily account for all her dreams and perplexities, lcues
pendent of mesmerism or- anything else. Several othis
wonderful revelations of this patient are related, but .sg,
have given enough to show that Miss Martineau is dolts
which some of our readers will no doubt consider 09
new characteristic of the lady.

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