text:  In the third case transparent and absurd as the experiments seemed to us and as the account of them will probably appear to our readers the doctor from his position and practice must have been seriously injured by his mesmeric experiments; and therefore there is fair reason to believe that he was not a party to a fraud which must have been objectless and professionally injurious to him; but how a man of experience could be carried away by such flimsy devices is a psychological curiosity almost as marvellous as the asserted phenomena of mesmerism