PAGE DEDICATION iii ADVERTISEMENT v TABLE OF CONTENTS vii MESMERISM AND ESTABLISHED PHILOSOPHY 1 ATTRACTION 10 PHILOSOPHY, EXPERIMENTAL 13 PHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTION OF THE SENSES 15 MATTER 23 MOTION 24 MEDIUM OF SPACE 28 MINUS-PRESSURE MATTER 31 FIRE 34 MEDIUM OF FIRE 37 EXPANSION 39 OXYGEN AIR 41 THE USE OF OXYGEN IN PROMOTING COMBUSTION 42 COMBUSTION 43 WATER 47 SOLVENCY 53 GASTRIC SOLVENCY 54 USE OF THE INSPIRED OXYGEN WITHIN THE SYSTEM 56 SPLEEN, ITS USE 59 DIAPHRAGM, HOW RAISED 60 CORRELATIVE ELEMENTS 61 MAGNETISM 62 NATURAL SLEEP 65 COMATOSE FLOW 66 MESMERIC SLEEP 68 VISION 70 TRANSPARENCY 77 OPACITY 77 THE NERVOUS FLUID 78 CLAIRVOYANCE 81 LONG VISION 82 OPAQUE VISION 83 RIGIDITY 86 PAIN 86 MESMERISM, CURATIVE 87 ETHERS 87 REPORT 88 VOLUNTARY DE-ELECTRISATION 91 WILL, THE NATURE AND POWER OF 92 APPLICATION OF MESMERISM 95 CONTINUOUS MOTION 97 ASCENDING AND DESCENDING MOTION 99 CENTRIPETAL FLOW 99 FORMATION OF A PLANET 100 ---- AND USE OF A COMET 103 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE PHILOSOPHY, ETC., ETC. MESMERISM AND ESTABLISHED PHILOSOPHY.