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... | The last American mail brings us the ''Banner of Light'' (Boston) of August 28th, in which some unbelievable physiological assertions are made by a trance medium in New York. Mr. J. L. O’Sullivan writes:—“As soon as she had closed her address, a short, middle-aged man rose from one of the rear seats in the hall, in whose strongly-marked features, still exhibiting the evidences of his marvellous forty days of fasting, though his subsequent week of not less astonishing feasting had restored some healthy color to his cheeks, I recognised the hero of the day, Dr. Tanner . . . . He said that he could not but understand the speaker’s reference to his recent severe trial in this city, and that though he remained still too weak to desire to say much, he must remark that his former similar experience (for forty-''two'' days) did not seem to him to support her theory of his having absorbed nutrition from the atmosphere charged with the elements furnished by a great population. It was in the wilds of the west, and much of his time was spent out on an open prairie, where he used to lay a great part of the day, basking in the sun and inhaling the fine, pure electric atmosphere of Minnesota, which he had often longed for here. He thought that he had been sustained by electric {{Style S-HPB SB. Restored|forces; nor did he think he would have lived twenty days under his recent trial if it had not been for the refreshment of his daily drives in the Central Park and on the Riverside Avenue, which had cost him six dollars a day. Air, fresh air, was what he was always wanting, and he often suffered for the want of it in Clarendon Hall. He should be disposed to think that the impure emanations exhaled from the population of a great city would do him more harm than any benefit to be derived in the way of nutrition from its other emanations.”}} | ||
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