me more gratifying, than the rude yet touching eloquence with which (in the dialect of the Scottish Border) she alluded, on taking leave of me, to the contrast between her sufferings before, and her enjoyment of health after the operation.

CASE VIII-STIFFNESS AND SWELLING OF THE JOINTS REMOVED.

ELIZABETH ELWOOD, of Botchergate, Carlisle, had for a long time been troubled with stiffness and swelling of the ankles, which prevented her walking without the severest pain. She came to me first on the 6th of August, 1844, when I passed her into the mesmeric sleep. On being awoke she could not remember any sensations she had during her sleep, but said she was better. After being mesmerised a few more times she declared on the 10th (four days from the first operation) that she felt quite well, and was exceedingly thankful for the cure.

CASE IX.-INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE CURED.

ELIZABETH LITTLE, Botchergate, Carlisle, had been suffering under inflammation of the right eye, attended with severe pain in the head, for more than a year. She came to me in consequence of hearing of so many cures by mesmerism, and I passed her into the sleep, from which she awoke better. The pain was removed from the eye; a weight, she said, had been taken from her head; and her sight was clearer. A day or two afterwards, in the presence of Mr. Sheffield and other citizens she declared herself perfectly well.*

* I cannot proceed further in the narration of these cases, without recording my testimony to the high worth of several of the Medical Faculty in Carlisle, and the rational spirit in which they have investigated and adopted mesmerism. Indeed, the conduct of many of the leading men, including the late and present mayor of the city (Mr. Benwell and Mr. Steele) during my visit, made an impression upon my mind that I feel will be indelible; and whenever I think of

CASE X.-ANOTHER CURE OF TIC-DOLOUREUX.

HANNAH HETHERINGTON, Borough Street, Carlisle, had been for eight months subject to tic-doloureux, and had not in all that time, she said, been free from it for a single day. I mesmerised her only once, and she declared on being awoke that she felt a great change, and that she was as well as ever she had been in her life.

CASE XI.-EXTENSION OF A CONTRACTED LEG.

One of the most interesting cases I had in Carlisle was that of Mr. WILLIAM ROBINSON COWAN, of Annetwell-street, who, for many years, had been subject to a remarkable contraction of the left leg with rigidity of the knee, consequent on a severe attack of neuralgia, the original symptoms of which had been removed by strichnyne. He was unable from weakness to press his left foot to the ground, wore a high-heeled boot, used a stick, and yet halted in walking. Being mesmerised by me one evening in evening in presence of a most numerous and respectable audience at the Athenæum, I subjected his leg to a series of manipulations by which it became extended, apparently without the slightest sensation; when, under the influence of music, he danced as freely, and almost as gracefully as I had ever seen any one. On being awoke he declared himself oblivious of all that had been done during the operation; but said that his leg now felt so flexible that he could use it with perfect freedom; and that the only inconvenience remaining was the high heel to his boot, which had to be removed. He had also now recovered so much power that he could stamp with the affected foot nearly as heavily as with the other, and could

the many cures by mesmerism there have been in that neighbourhood, it is almost impossible to avoid referring them, in some measure, to the good sense and good faith in which, by all classes, the question has been received and examined.

walk just as well without his stick as with it. Three weeks afterwards I saw him and learnt that there had been no indication whatever of a relapse, but that he could then walk with great ease and comfort.

CASES XII. TO XV.-CURE AND RELIEF OF DEAFNESS.

The power which mesmerism sometimes gives us over the senses of others is very great, and, as before contended, must have an adequate use. It enables us, when a patient has been made sufficiently susceptible, to suspend them all, either simultaneously or seriatim, as we please, and to restore them in the same order. It therefore follows, that where they are suspended or deranged by illness, and the patient can be brought into this requisite state of susceptibility, the operator may restore them in the same way as if they had been suspended by his own manipulations, providing there be no organic mutilation or decay. Thus, for instance, it is that in my experiments I sometimes take away the sight, and the same of smell, taste, touch, and hearing, and afterwards restore or even quicken them. Thus, too, it is that not only can any of these be suspended, but the derangement of them may be so modified that the same things shall have the most contradictory tastes, scents, or colours. And it will therefore follow, when any of these conditions occur naturally or accidentally, that they may be rectified by the same artificial process as that which would be required had they been induced by any sign or act of the operator's will, It is on this supposition only that I am at present able to offer any philosophical explanation of the following results:

ELIZABETH NICHOLSON, aged seventeen, residing with her mother, in Water-lane, Carlisle, was known to the Rev. Mr. White, of that city. She came to me during my sojourn there, exceedingly deaf. For four

years she had not heard thunder, and had abstained from attendance at any place of worship because she could not hear the services. In the course of a few

minutes, I threw her by the ordinary method of passes over the head and eyes into the sleep, and she awoke very much improved in her hearing. Next day I mesmerised her once in private, and again, in the evening, before a la e audience at the Athenæum, Mr. White, the minister just mentioned, being chairman, and (after she was awoke) testing her hearing in a variety of experiments, by which it was proved that she could now distinctly hear and reply to a very minute whisper made at some distance behind her. I mesmerised her again on the fourth day from our first interview, when she considered herself quite cured, and able to hear as well as she could wish.

MARGARET WALSH, daughter of Mrs. Maria Walsh, Castle-street, Carlisle, had been partially deaf from the age of two to that of fifteen years. I only mesmerised her in public, and after a few operations she declared herself quite well.

One or two other cases of deafness I shall allude to, not that they were cured, but because of the interesting phenomena they presented:

The first is that of a fine, intelligent young gentleman, aged nineteen, of a highly respectable family in Nottinghamshire. He was totally deaf and mute from infancy, not being able to hear a gun fired at a few paces distance. By placing my thumbs and his in juxta-position, and looking him intently in the face, I one day threw him into a deep mesmeric trance; but however deaf he might be when awake, he could hear distinctly enough when mesmerised; since, on the introduction of a musical box, he beat accurate time to its tunes with his fingers, and seemed highly pleased with his newly-found power. Upon this we had him removed to a room in which there was a pianoforte, to the notes of which he danced and waved his body in the most correct time possible; and finding his way at last

to the instrument, took hold of and embraced it with very delight. He also drew several sketches better than he could have done in so short a time had he been awake. Whilst he was standing, I touched his head in the region of Veneration, when he slowly bowed his knees and raised his hands. Then I touched his eyelids with a view to excite Language, upon which he repeated the Lord's Prayer with his fingers in the signs by which the dumb are accustomed to converse. This was to me a most touching sight, especially as his parents and sisters were all standing by with tears-but not tears of sorrow-streaming down their cheeks. What, however, struck us as most curious in this case was, that when I endeavoured to excite his organ of Tune, he went immediately to the piano and began to strike the keys as though he would have played over again the air to which he had just been dancing. When awoke he did not believe the sketches he had drawn were his own; and when informed of all he had done he was still more sceptical, until convinced by his father's very solemn assurance of the facts. I have yet a hope that this young gentleman may be made to hear as well when awake as when in the trance.

The other case is that of a young woman, RACHEL MONKS (living at 33, Trinity-buildings, Carlisle), who had been totally deaf nearly seventeen years. I mesmerised her on the 9th of August, 1844, and in the course of that day she heard the whistle of a locomotive engine at the distance of a furlong, and also heard her sister calling to her in a moderately loud voice. At night I mesmerised her again, and afterwards she heard a violin played at some distance behind her. Next morning she heard every knock at the door of my lodgings, although she sat in a room thirteen yards distant from it, and seemed highly delighted. Being compelled to leave the city immediately afterwards, I gave instructions to her friends to continue the process, but am not at present aware with what result. The fact that the sense could be appealed to in any degree