isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"New York, Feb. 7, 1877 (continued): "Dr. X, hastened to her, made eager magnetic passes about her face and neck, and propped up her head and shoulders on cushions. And there she lay like a person sick and suffering, occasionally moaning, turning restlessly, etc. I suppose a full half hour then elapsed, during which seemed [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"Not many years ago, one of the worst of superstitions, scientists held to be that of believing that the murderer's portrait remained impressed on the eye of the murdered person, and that the former could be easily recognized by examining carefully the retina. The "superstition" asserted that the likeness could be made still more striking [...]