Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-02-18
DAILY EVENING STAR.
cLA1RvoYANcE.

cLAIRvoYANcE.
Professor Grimes, who has given TWEEN
ty years attention to mesmerism, psv
chology, &C., has given several lecture.
in this city and Springfield, during tn,
past week. He sternly opposes moderr
Spiritualism, and his arguments are otter
quite ingenious. He assumes that tn,
raps are always humbugs, and that wri
ting mediums. are psychological subjects
He makes them write, when on IN,
stage, apparently by an effort of his will
But notwithstanding his extreme hostil.
ity to spiritualism he assumes that ther,
is such thing as clairyoyance, and as
serts that he exhibited woman in Bos.
ton, who could and did read with her
eyes closed. The experiments upon her
were conclusive. Gentlemen placed
their fingers upon her eye-lids, and she
would then, with her eyes thus effectn-
ally closed, readily read the words which
any of the audience wrote upon a slip OF
paper; or could read any prin. sent to
her. ft- sq - - d.. -
This principle Of clairvoyance, if it is
really established as a principle, is won.
derful. We have seen quite a number of
the examinations of Mrs. Mettler, of No.
8 College street, in this CITY, a verv
worthy lady, and one of the clearest
clairvoyantS, probably, now living. She
examines to ascertain the nature of dis
eases: Within fou- or five years she has
ex; he'd three or four thousand cases.
Wa neyar haard Of N oaca - ,l:l 4
failed to give correct description. She
could give hundreds of certificates, if she
pleased, from persons whose complicated
difficulties have been pointed out by
her in complete detail, and who have
been either cured or greatly relieved by
her prescriptions. Still, strange as it
may appear, this lady when in her.
normal state, knows nothing of what she
has said in her clairvoyant condition.
Most of the cases presented to her con-
slderatlon are of the most desperate kind,
which have been pronounced hopeless by
the physicians. We know of one that
had been given over by the best physicians
In New York and Connecticut, which this
lady described minutely and prescribed
Tor. Her directions were followed, and
the patient was cured. We allude to this.
as there was complication of difficulties
in the case, and it does not seem that
there could be any guess work in the
management Of it.
A week or two back Miss Agnes Com
stock, Of ShurbErne, Vermont, visited
Mrs. Mettler, accompanied by her mother
Thirteen years ago bone was displaced
IN the shoulder of Miss Comstock, and
she had suffered much from it. Several
distinguished surgeons had been called
to attend the case, and they did all they
could for it, supposing the bone had been
set. Still she could not use her
arm, and so intense was the pain that
something like an abscess was formed
below the joint, and the physicians had
decided to cut off her arm. As last
resort, before consenting the amputation,
she came to Mrs. Mettler, to ascertain
the condition Of the bones i'm her shoulder
She entered Mrs. Mettler's dwelling an
entire stranger, Mrs. NJ, not KNOWING
that any such person was about to visit
her. She did not even hint at her diff
Guilty, but submitted to an examination.
Mrs. Mettler's hand, as she was in the
clairvoyant state, rested for moment o.,
Miss Comstock s head, and then SLOWLY
passed to her shoulder.
After some little preparation, with di-
rectioDs to position, and assistance in
holding Miss Comstock, Mrs. NIettlcr
wrenched the shoulder, producing a loud
crack which was heard in the adjoining
room. The patient screamed with pain,
but 1t was all over. The young lady, for
the first time in l3 years, placed her
hand Oh the back of her head. The
shoulder was bathed, and the next dav
Miss ComStock returned home, able TO
use her arm, nothing remaining Of her
long seated difficulty, save soreness
about tie shoulder, which was fas. dis.
at the last accounts from her.
When Mis-. Mettler came out Of the clair
voyant state, she did not know that she
had touched Miss Comstock. This is \
wonderful case. First, Mrs. Mettler,
found the precise difficulty at once, with
out asking a question. She seemed to see
it, and to comprehend the previous move
ment that would place the dislocated bone
where it belonged, and this by the power
of clairvoyance. This is remarkable
fact as showing that their is such a prin-
ciple as clairyoyance; and that the person
it, as Mrs. Mettler does, can
see and comprehend that which cannot be
seen or comprehended by the ordinary
powers of vision. The facts in the in
teresting cases we have here narrated
can be established to the conviction of the
most skeptical. .-HarJord Times. -.'-
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