THE PHILOSOPHY WHICH SHOWS THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MESMERISM, AND EXPLAINS THE PHENOMENON OF CLAIRVOYANCE. BY T. H. PASLEY. To form a just opinion of a novel mode of philosophising, we should study the subject, and not condemn without being able to prove it erroneous. He is not an Esculapian who is unacquainted with the Philosophy of the Animal Economy. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 1848. TYLER & REED, PRINTERS, BOLT-COURT, FLEET STREET. DEDICATION. The following trite sketch of the Philosophy of Nature, dedicates itself to the most noble Champions of Mesmerism, Doctor ELLIOTSON and Doctor ASHBURNER of London, and Doctor ESDAILE of Calcutta, in compliment and grateful acknowledgment for having rescued from the fangs of ignorance, envy, and self-conceit, the science of health and knowledge--the science of Mesmerism, which unfolds the hitherto unknown wonders of the Animal system; and will unfold the wonders of the entire universe, when the telescope and microscope are familiarly used by the Clairvoyant. ADVERTISEMENT. It is not the intention of the present work, that what is herein described should be received as the philosophy of Nature according to the precision of Nature; but, through exemplification, on principles deduced from the Natural Inertia of Matter, to point out the mode by which the philosophy, which should govern all illustration of physical phenomena, is discoverable,--the Philosophy of Mechanical Nature. JERSEY, _July 1, 1848_. CONTENTS.