Medium.—I should be rendered instantly ill.

I.—How do you feel to-day?

Medium.—Particularly well; I have not been so well for months.

I.—Then, may I ask you whether there is, at the present moment, a magnet in my possession?

The young lady looked at me, blushed, and stammered, ‘No; I am not en rapport with you.’

I sat at her right hand, and a left-hand pocket, within six inches of her person, contained a magnet.

Tyndall adds, “Our host here deprecated discussion as it ‘exhausted the medium.’”

CHAPTER VII
THE PRODUCTION OF MAGNETISM BY ELECTRICITY

Fig. 15.—Diagram to illustrate Magnetic effect of an Electric Current.