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A very ingenious friend of Dr H. and the glorious cause in which he is engaged, has conceived an improvement on this process. While the above operation is going on, surely? the adroit necromancer would handle his virgula divinitoria with far greater effect, and himself appear much more in character, by using a suitable incantation. The following has, therefore, been proposed for the general use of the pro- fession . Hocus ! pocus ! up and down ! Draw the white right from the crown I Hocus ! poc...us ! at a loss ! Draw the brazen rod across ! Hocus ! pocus ! down and up ! Draw them both from foot to top ! Lest you should not have sufficient ingenuity to comprehend the ohjed of Dr Haygarth, in producing these operations on the minds of those paupers, by the aid of such means as he employed. I must try to explain it. It was to induce an in- ference on the part of the public, that if, hy any means what- soever, effects can be produced on the mind of a poor bed- ridden patent, whether such effect be favorable or unfavorable (as the latter was often the case in Haygarth's experiments) ergo, Perkins- s tractors cure diseases by acting on the mind also, whether on a human or brute subject.
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