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Mesmeric experiments at public lectures are little to be depended upon. Strikingly evidenced by a recent example at Maidstone

by Samuel Spurrell

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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8 pages ; 19 cm An attack by mesmerist Spurrell on the surgeon and lecturer James Quilter Rumball. Dated from reference on page 8 to 'a periodical of extensive circulation, and of the present month', carrying an article entitled 'Mr. Rumball turned Mountebank'; an article of this title appeared in the 'Phreno-Magnet' for August, 1843 At head of title: Just published, price two-pence Publication date from internal evidence

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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, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “mesmeric” in the title, “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata, and “mesmeric” in the edition title.

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

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1843[Maidstone, Kent] : Printed and published for the author, by J. Brown, Kent Arms Office, 87, Week Street, Maidstone. ; London : Harvey & Darton, Gracechurch Street; Harvey & Darton, Gracechurch Street; Printed and published for the author, by J. Brown, Kent Arms Office, 87, Week Street, Maidstone.English—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>
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