. New-York dissector : quarterly journal of medicine, surgery, magnetism, mesmerism and the collateral sciences with the mysteries and fallacies of the faculty . magneti-ser and becomes free and independent. These phenomena are the consequence ofreversing the natural order of the magneticor spiritual organization of the body. Thenegative and insensible forces connectedwith the inner or mucous membranes orsurfaces, and molar nerves, are attracted tothe outer or serous membranes, and nervesof sensation, while the positive and sensi-tive forces in these external surfaces are re-pelled to the inne
. New-York dissector : quarterly journal of medicine, surgery, magnetism, mesmerism and the collateral sciences with the mysteries and fallacies of the faculty . magneti-ser and becomes free and independent. These phenomena are the consequence ofreversing the natural order of the magneticor spiritual organization of the body. Thenegative and insensible forces connectedwith the inner or mucous membranes orsurfaces, and molar nerves, are attracted tothe outer or serous membranes, and nervesof sensation, while the positive and sensi-tive forces in these external surfaces are re-pelled to the inner or mucous membranes andsurfaces, and hence the cause of this revers-ed order of the sensibility and insensibilityof the opposite or serous and mucous surfa-ces. In passing into the magnetic state a per-son feels first a disposition to sleep and thena prickling sensation in the skin, followedby a general numbness—the natural lightfading away, when perfect darkness glimmering of magnetic light then beginsto appear, when a shock ensues, followedby a blaze of light, consciousness and clair-voyance. 215 TheHydrarchos, or Great Fossil The Hydrarchos, or Great Fossil Sea-Serpent. 217 THE HYDRARCHOS,Or, Great Fossil Sea-Serpent. Astounding as the progress of geologicaldiscovery has been, for the prodigies of theanimal kingdom which it has developed, andthe enlarged views of the pre-historicalepochs of our globe which it has demanded,it has hitherto produced nothing so highlycalculated to impress both the scientific andthe popular mind with the wealth of its re-sources and the magnificence of its instruc-tion, as the stupendous fossil skeleton rep-resented in the annexed engraving. Inpresenting to us the osseous and petrifiedremains of a marine serpent whose originallength was evidently, at least, 130 feet, witha bulk in due proportion, we have tangiblyand palpably realized not only the ophiculardescriptions of the ancient poets and histo-rians, heretofore dee
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