Note 14 — REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS, &c. (continued 2)
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M. Deslon had already said in 1780. “Granting for a moment that M. Mesmer possesses no other secret than that of employing the imagination in the extensive production of the most salutary effects, will it not still be true, that his invention is an extremely valuable one? For in reality, if the physic of the imagination be more salutary than the other kinds of medicine, what good reason can be alledged, why the physic of the imagination should not be brought into general use?” Observations on the Animal Magnetism, pages 46 and 47.