Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein: With an Account of MesmerismMayo, Herbert
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Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein: With an Account of Mesmerism
Mayo, Herbert
Mesmerism; Parapsychology and medicine; Superstition
_c._ Hold the odometer over the zinc disc at its centre; of course,
longitudinal oscillations determined by the proximad current manifest
themselves. Then shift its place on the transverse diameter more and
more to the left. _First Result_—For something more than a quarter of
the whole diameter, the motion continues longitudinal, proving that
the central current has a breadth at least something exceeding half
the diameter. Same result on the other side of the centre. _Second
Result_—When the odometer nears the sinistral cardinal point of
the zinc disc, its longitudinal proximad motion is replaced by the
motion I have called clock-rotation. When it is held near the dextral
cardinal point, versed rotation manifests itself.
This second result establishes that the longitudinal proximad current
extends laterally to the edges of the disc; but that, when near to
them, the force of the co-existing transverse current asserts itself,
driving the odometer (on the left) off in a sinistro-proximad diagonal,
which ends in the establishment of clock-rotation; on the right driving
the central current off, in a dextro-proximad diagonal, resulting in
versed rotation. (See fig. 7.)
Parallel and opposite results are obtained by the odometer when these
experiments are repeated with the copper disc; and necessarily the
clock-rotation appears near the proximad margin of the disc, the versed
rotation near the distal edge.
Therefore it is evident that the great longitudinal and transverse
currents extend over the whole disc, but not beyond it. Experiment _a_,
section II., and figs. 3 and 4, show that, immediately beyond the
cardinal points, single forces are in operation.
Other interesting results follow from trying with the odometer the
extra-marginal spaces between the cardinal points.
_d._ First let the central points between each pair of cardinal points
be tried with the zinc disc. _Result_—(see fig. 9,)—a dextro-proximad
current is manifested between the sinistral and distal points, and
between the proximal and dextral points; a sinistro-proximad current
is manifested between the dextral and distal, and between the proximal
and sinistral points—giving the impression that there exist two
diagonal forces, comparable to the longitudinal and transverse forces.
Fig. 10 gives the corresponding, but opposite, results obtained upon
the copper disc.
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