8vo. 39pp, [1]. Uncut in original publisher's buff wrappers. Rubbed, marked, and creased. Very occasional spotting.

A funeral oration rejecting mesmerism by François Amédée Doppet (1753-1799), a Savoyard-turned-physician whose works often combined occult healing with eroticism. This volume on animal magnetism, drawn from the works of Anton von Mesmer, followed Doppet's time spent absorbing the theories and practices of mesmerism himself. Although he was intrigued by the philosophies of the method, Doppet dismissed Mesmer and his followers as 'quacks', and would assure the royal court of Turin that mesmerism itself was far from witchcraft or legitimate occult magic.

OCLC records copies at just two locations (Senate House and Strasbourg).