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ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES RELATING TO MESMERISM. Part I. By the REV.
S. R. MAITLAND, DD. F.R.S. F.S.A. Sometime Librarian to the late Archbishop
of Canterbury, and Keeper of the MSS. at Lambeth.
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