“Not only does the mesmeric influence affect persons ignorant of its existence, but [Georges] Cuvier [1769-1832], in his ‘Lessons in Comparative Anatomy,’ tells us: — ‘The effects obtained upon persons already asleep, and those which arise in others who have been put asleep by the mesmeric process, with the phenomena presented by animals, do not permit us to doubt that the proximity of two bodies, with certain conditions and motions, produces a genuine influence, altogether independent of the action of the imagination in either; and it is sufficiently evident that these results are owing to some communication having been established between the two nervous systems.’

“Dr. Ogilvie, Garrison Surgeon, Bombay, wrote to me that, when serving in the Indian Navy, he used to amuse the officers and crews by converting the domestic animals on board into mesmeric somnambulists.”