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
_d._ Repeat the experiment, with the thumb applied.
_Results_—Oscillations ensue of the same length, and they are again
unequal, but in the contrary direction. Now they do not reach the pile
of sovereigns by an inch, but they pass three inches in the opposite
direction.
[Illustration: Diagram showing figs. 15-24]
[Illustration: Diagram showing fisg 25-29]
Thus a force is brought into view having this new quality: when the
Od-relations of the experimenter are versed, a change ensues, not into
motion in a plane transverse to the former one, but the direction of
the new motion is simply the opposite of the first, or the odometer
appears to be attracted or repelled towards the Od-subject alternately.
_e._ Try the same experiment with a single sovereign, or with the zinc
disc. _Result_—The odometer held at four inches distance is attracted
and repelled just as in the preceding instance.
Then an irregular form of the Od-subject, or its unequal mass at
different parts, have nothing to do with this new motion; and it
is evident that the relation of the latter to the former class of
oscillatory motions will be easily determinable.
_f._ Lay the proper disc before you (see fig. 15,) and hold the
odometer over the production in each direction of its transversal line
beyond the limits of the disc. _Results_—When held near the right edge
of the disc, as before mentioned, a dextrad motion is developed; that
is to say, the odometer moves off from the dextral cardinal point of
the disc, oscillatively. This movement, or those oscillations outward,
are fainter and fainter, as the odometer is held over points more and
more remote from the disc. At length, at the distance of an inch and a
half, the odometer becomes absolutely stationary. When moved, however,
still farther off, motion begins again, which is very lively at four
to five inches distance from the disc, its direction being sensibly
toward the disc. Moved farther off, still the same motion continues,
and is detectable ten to twelve inches off the Od-subject.
When the same experiments are made on the left edge of the Od-subject,
phenomena just the reverse are manifested for the same distance. The
extra-marginal dextrad motion is transverse for an inch and a half.
Then there occurs a point of quiescence; on the other side of which
the odometer swings in free and long sinistrad or repelled oscillations.
_g._ Repeat these experiments (fig. 16,) with the thumb applied.
_Result_—On the left side the near extra-marginal dextrad motion
is replaced by a tangential proximad motion; and the centrifugal
oscillations beyond the point of quiescence are replaced by
centripetal oscillations. On the right side again, the near dextrad
extra-marginal oscillations are replaced by a proximad tangential
current: while beyond the point of quiescence, the remote centripetal
oscillations are reversed into centrifugal ones.
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