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Report of the experiments on animal magnetism, made by a Committee of the Medical Section of the French Royal Academy of Sciences: read at the meetings of the 21st and 28th of June, 1831, translated and now for the first time published; with an historical and explanatory introduction, and an appendix. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1833.

An English translation of the favorable report on animal magnetism made by the French Royal Academy of Medicine (see also the later translation of Henri Marie Husson's work by Poyen Report on the magnetical experiments). The translation is preceded by a long introduction by John Campbell Colquhoun, who was one of animal magnetism’s staunchest supporters in England. This book constitutes, in fact, the first edition of what Colquhoun would later call Isis Revelata. Colquhoun states in the title that the report is “now for the first time published” because the original French edition by Husson was very rare and never broadly distributed publicly.

(Crabtree, 354)