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THE MAGNETISERS.

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Some deemed them wondrous wise, and some believed them mad.

Beattie’s Minstrel.

An ornate letter T. The wonderful influence of imagination in the cure of diseases is well known. A motion of the hand, or a glance of the eye, will throw a weak and credulous patient into a fit; and a pill made of bread, if taken with sufficient faith, will operate a cure better than all the drugs in the pharmacopœia. The Prince

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