REPORT OF DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, AND OTHER COMMISSIONERS, CHARGED BY THE KING OF FRANCE, WITH THE EXAMINATION OF THE ANIMAL MAGNETISM, AS NOW PRACTISED AT PARIS. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. WITH AN HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, (NO. 72) ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD. 1785. INTRODUCTION. The subject of the following pamphlet has excited the extremest attention in France, has for years filled their Journals and Mercures, and has employed some of their best pens and their brightest wits. By some it has been applauded as the greatest of philosophical discoveries, and by others decried as the juggle of an unprincipled impostor. The English nation has too much curiosity for eve…
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