Note 111 — THE TWO SISTERS WHO ENVIED THEIR CADETTE.[98]

These disembodied “voices” speaking either naturally or through instruments are a recognised phenomenon of the so-called “Spiritualism.” See p. 115 of “Supramundane Facts,” &c., edited by T. J. Nichols, M.D., &c., London, Pitman, 1865. I venture to remark that the medical treatment by Mesmerism, Braidism and hypnotics, which was violently denounced and derided in 1850, is in 1887 becoming a part of the regular professional practice and forms another item in the long list of the Fallacies of the Faculty and the Myopism of the “Scientist.”