3. Many effects appear to depend on magnetism alone, and are not reproduced without it.
4. These effects are various. Sometimes magnetism agitates, at other times it calms. It generally causes acceleration of the pulse and respiration, slight convulsive movements, somnolency, and, in a few cases, somnambulism.
5. The existence of peculiar characters of somnambulism has not yet been proved.
6. It may, however, be inferred that this state of somnambulism prevails when we notice the development of new faculties, such as clairvoyance and intuitive foresight, or when it produces changes in the physiological condition of the individual, such as insensibility, sudden increase of strength, since these effects cannot be attributed to any other cause.
7. When the effects of magnetism have been produced, there is no occasion on subsequent trials to have recourse to passes.[42] The look of the magnetizer and his will have the same influence.
8. Various changes are effected in the perceptions and faculties of those persons in whom somnambulism has been induced.
9. Somnambulists have distinguished with closed eyes objects placed before them. They have, then, read words, recognised colours, named cards, &c.
10. In two somnambulists we witnessed the faculty of foreseeing acts of the organism to take place at periods more or less distant. One announced the day, the hour, and the minute of the invasion and recurrence of an epileptic fit; the other foresaw the period of his recovery. Their anticipations were realized.
11. We have only seen one somnambulist who had described the symptoms of the diseases in three individuals presented to her.
12. In order to establish justly the relations of magnetism with therapeutics, one must have observed the effects on a number of individuals, and have made experiments on sick persons. Not having done this, the commissioners can only say, they have seen too few cases to enable them to form a decisive opinion.