isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

"Arrived at this point, des Mousseaux loses all patience, and indignantly exclaims: "Was the learned physician quite awake when writing the above sentences?...If, perchance, the Drs. Calmeil and Figuier should seriously maintain their assertions and insist on their theory, we are ready to answer them as follows: 'We are perfectly willing to believe you. But [...]

isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

""Let us remark, besides", rejoins Dr. Calmeil, quoted by Figuier, "that for striking upon the bodies of the Convulsionnaires use was made either of massive objects with flat or rounded surfaces, or of cylindrical and blunt shapes. The action of such physical agents is not to be compared, in respect to the danger which attaches [...]

isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

""We have said, in the introduction to this work, that at the middle of the nineteenth century one of the most famous epidemics of possession broke out in Germany: that of the Nonnains, who performed all the miracles most admired since the days of St. Medard, and even some greater ones; who turned summersaults, who [...]

isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

"And now for the views of Dr. Figuier upon these remarkable and unquestionably historical phenomena. "A Convulsionary bends back into an arc, her loins supported by the sharp point of a peg", quotes the learned author, from the proces verbaux. "The pleasure that she begs for is to be pounded by a stone weighing fifty [...]