Quotes:Deleuze, Joseph Philippe François

Zirkoff, Boris

Deleuze. Jean-Philippe-Franqois. French naturalist, b. at Sisteron, 1753; d. 1835. Initially sub-lieutenant of infantry; later studied natural sciences, and in 1795 became associated with the Nat. Sc. Museum, of which he was appointed Librarian in 1828. Known especially for work on animal magnetism, establishing the fact that a magnetized individual is clairvoyant, sees diseased conditions and knows remedies for them, but remembers nothing of it when he returns to normal state. Chief works: Histoire, critique du magnétisme, Paris, 1813-19, 2 vols.—Instruction pratique sur le magnétisme animal, 1819 and 1836.—Défense du magnétisme, 1819. —Mémoire sur la faculté de prévision, 1836.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, p. 526