Note 22 — SECTION II.
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In about an hour after she appeared to forty of this assembly. But I must here also insert a particular observation of Dr. Rush in his chapter of illusions; “When a person fancies that he hears voices and sees objects, which do not exist, he has these sensations alone. The voice supposed to be heard, says he, and the objects supposed to be seen, are never heard nor seen by two persons, even when they are close to each other.”—Disease of the Mind, chapter 15.
The inference then is certain, with respect to those witnesses, that no mental disease could be the true origin of their hearing and vision.