1852-1854 MESMERISM & CLAIRVOYANCE. Two Complete Years of "The Zoist" on Medical Mesmerism

Very rare on the market, the present volume contains two complete years, over 800 pages, of The Zoist, a periodical dedicated to non-traditional medical approaches. The Zoist distanced itself from mystical and supernatural approaches to mesmerism, clairvoyance, etc., and instead believed that the principles were firmly grounded in neurology, biology, and forces [scientific] as yet not understood at work in the natural and scientific order. 

No copies no the market at the time of cataloging. Two complete years. 

The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Application to Human Welfare. March 1852 to January 1853. London. Hippolyte, Bailliere, Publisher. 1853. 432pp.

Contents include:

On Dr. William Gregory's On the Theory of Imagination as the Cause of Mesmeric Phenomena, and on Money Challenges in Mesmerism; On Dr. Motherwell's Mesmerism in Australia. Benefit in Curved Spine in Hysteria. Clairvoyance and Other Phenomena; The Galvanic Disc Delusion Dispelled by Mr. Acland; Cures of or Benefit in Inflammations of the Face - Enlargement of the Joints - with Great Debility in a Child, indeed, Rickets, Erysipelas, Amaurosis, Extreme Weakness of the Temper, Spasmodic Cough, Stiffness and Weakness of the Knees, Squinting, etc., by Mr. Mayhew of New Jersey; Cure of Very Long and Agonizing Pains and Other Distressing Symptoms in a Lady by H. S. Thompson; Report of Cases Treated with Mesmerism, and in Connexion with the Exeter Mesmeric Institution. Painless Extraction of Five Teeth, Complete Relief of Stricture with Severe Suffering, Cure of Severe Headache with Threatened Insanity, etc., by John B. Parker [Surgeon]; Cure of a Diseased Knee by Mr. Clement of Pocklington; Cure of Severe Cutaneious Disease of the whole Scalp in a Young Lady; Remarkable Power of Mesmerism over Dreadfully Severe Pains after Parturition by a Clergyman of the Church of England; Review of Two Works on Insanity;  - 1. Crime and Insanity. their Causes, Connexion, and Consequence by C. M. Burnett, and 2. Remarks on the Plea of Insanity and on the Management of Criminal Lunatics by William Wood; Unfounded Insinuations of the Medical Times Respecting Dr. Davey and the Committee of Magistrates at the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, Nervous Affections. Metallo-therapia or Metal-Cure - New Properties of Metals Illustrated through Mesmerism by Dr. Burq of Paris, A Few Words on Electro-Biology by Mr. Robert Emmet Cane; The Roman Catholic Priesthood and Mesmerism by "Anti-Glorioso;" Cases by Mr. Saunders of Bristol. Rheumatism - Bleeding and Possibly a Fit in a Rabbit, Pain and Helplessness in a Cat from being Run Over, etc.; On the Transference of the Sense of Hearing from the Ear to the Abdomen [by Mesmerism]; The Cure of Singular Attacks of Apparent Come by Dr. Elliotson; The London Mesmeric Infirmary; More Clairvoyance in Alexis Didier by Dr. Elliotson; full-page engraving of Khanoo - Who had a 5 pound tumor removed without anesthesia through Mesmerism; Hypochondriasis Cured with Brass in Plates; Hysteria, Chlorosis, Daily Vomiting for Many Months- Rapid Cure with Brass Rings; Insanity and Suicidal Tendencies Cured with English Steel; Observations on Acupuncture by S. D. Saunders; An Account of the Mesmeric Hospital in Bengal since Dr. Esdaile's Departure from India; Cure of an Arm Rendered Useless by Lightning; A Clairvoyant Announcement of Worms; The Superior Efficacy of Mesmerism; On William Snewing's An Instance of the Effect of Maternal Mental Impression Upon the Offspring before its Birth; Adolph Didier's Clairvoyance by Mr. Barth; Ignorance and Intolerance in the Perth Infirmary; etc,. etc., etc.

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The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Application to Human Welfare. March 1853 to January 1854. London. Hippolyte, Bailliere, Publisher. 1853. 432pp.

Contents include: 

A Few Examples of Rapid Relief with Mesmerism by Mr. Capern, including Rheumatism, Lumbago, Hystical Convulsions, Nuralgia, etc.; Defective Education at University Colleges; The Rev. Dr. Maitland, the Rev. Mr. Sandby, and Mr. Combe on the Conduct of the Clergy in the Persecution of Witchcraft [with application to the persecution of practitioners of mesmerism, clairvoyance, etc.]; Cures and Painless Teeth Extraction by Mr. Parker [Surgeon]; The Idea of [Demonic] Possession Absurd; Review of 'Agnes, the Possessed, a Revelation of Mesmerism;' Diseased Gums Cured by Clairvoyance by Mr. Chase; Slobbering Childishness of Some Opponents; A Very Recent and Remarkable Clairvoyant Dream by Charles Herbert Cottrell; Observations upon Mesmerized Water by Jeffery Ekins; Spirit Rapping; Powerful and Remedial Influence of Mesmerism in Puerperal Convulsions by James Mouat - Surgeon of the 9th Regiment of Infantry, Ireland; Examples of the Great Benefit of Mesmerism as a Domestic Remedy by John James; Mesmerism Admitted into Wood's Practice of Medicine [America]; The Protest and Petition of James Esdaile, Surgeon, to the Members of the American Congress [Re: Mesmerism]; Irregularity of the Female System Relieved by Five Mesmeric Sittings; The Great Advantage of Combining Mesmerism with Ordinary Well-Established Medical Measures Illustrated in a Successful Case of Delirium Tremens; Opium, the Great Medicine; Can Professor Michael Faraday never be Wrong? Or, is Table-Turning all a Delusion? by Reverend Michael Sandby; Table Moving in Distant Lands; The Dualism of Od; The Odic Coloured Spectrum - The Polar-Lights of Earth; Etymology of the Word Od; On Raving Madness, Excited by Spiritual Table-Turning Fancies and Cured with Mesmerism by Henry Joseph Fradelle [Effects of Spirit-Rapping in America]; Downright Dishonesty of Reviewers [of Mesmerism]; Table-moving, Rappings, and Spiritual Manifestations by J. W. Jackson; The Rev. Mr. Godfrey and Satan at the Hanover Square Rooms; etc., 

Good +, both years bound in a solid, attractive half leather period binding with raised bands, etc., some scraping and rubbing as shown, but remaining quite sharp on the shelf and very stable for use. Textually very clean with only the slightest scattered foxing.