He
took a very grave view of Miss Wynne's case, and said that her
nervous system must shortly succumb to the terrible seizures. Sinfi
Lovell was in the room at the time. I asked Dr. Mivart if there was
any possible means of saving her life.
'None,' he said, 'or rather there is one which is unavailable.'
'And what is that?' I asked.
'They have a way at the Salpetriere Hospital of curing cases of acute
hysteria By transmitting the seizure to a healthy patient by means of
a powerful magnet. My friend Marini, of that hospital, has had
recently some extraordinary successes of this kind. Indeed, by a
strange coincidence, as I was travelling here this morning I chanced
to buy a _Daily Telegraph_, in which this paragraph struck my eye.'
Mivart then pointed out to me a letter from Paris in the _Daily
Telegraph_, giving an account of certain proceedings at the
Salpetriere Hospital, and in the same paper there was a long leading
article upon the subject. The report of the experiments was to me so
amazing that at first I could not bring my mind to believe in it.
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