The Quimby Manuscripts

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Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. The Quimby Manuscripts

The Quimby Manuscripts

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THE. QUIMBY MANUSCRIPTS

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HORATIO W. DRESSER

NEW YORK

The Quimby Manuscripts

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Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Horatio Willis Dresser

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Mr. Quimby further saw that even when a subject is clairvoyant this state is of short duration, and the subject readily lapses into the mere mind-reading of those present. So the diagnosis of a disease, as well as the opinion that a certain remedy will be effective, may be in part mere mind-reading. In an article addressed to the editor of a Portland paper, February, 1862, protesting against being classed with spiritists, mesmerists, and clairvoyants, Mr. Quimby says,

“I was one of the first mesmerisers in the state who gave public experiments, and I had a subject who was considered the best then known. He examined and prescribed for diseases just as this class do now. … The capacity of thought-reading is the common extent of mesmerism. Clairvoyance is very rare. …

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