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False accusation in the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society against a poor man because he suffered no pain while his leg was amputated in the mesmeric coma

and cruel refusal of the Society to receive his solemn denial of the truth of the false accusation

by John Elliotson

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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19 pages ; 21 cm "Extracted from 'The zoist' for April, 1851" Caption title

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis.

  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Hypnotism”. Retained metadata contains “mesmeric” in the title, “Hypnotism” in the subject metadata, and “mesmeric” in the edition title.

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    • “mesmeric”· in title
    • “Hypnotism”· in subject
    • “mesmeric”· in edition title

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and cruel refusal of the Society to receive his solemn denial of the truth of the false accusation

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1851LondonEnglish—Public

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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