Trials of animal magnetism on the brute creation. London: Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1839.
This unusual little book, written by a Middlesex physician, describes experiments he performed with animal magnetism on animals. Wilson decided to try these experiments for a number of reasons. The most important reason was to see whether effects produced in animals could remove objections to the reality of the effects of animal magnetism based on possible collusion on the part of magnetizer and magnetized or deception on the part of the magnetized alone. Among the animals Wilson treated were cats, dogs, fish, a cock, macaws, a horse, pigs, and even elephants. He seems to have successfully placed all of them in a trance state using magnetic passes.
(Crabtree, 419)
Scarce pamphlet bound with other works. Binder’s title: Tracts on mesmerism