For many years past he had been attended by a
physician, named Templeton- an old gentleman, perhaps seventy years of
age- whom he had first encountered at Saratoga, and from whose
attention, while there, he either received, or fancied that he
received, great benefit. The result was that Bedloe, who was
wealthy, had made an arrangement with Dr. Templeton, by which the
latter, in consideration of a liberal annual allowance, had
consented to devote his time and medical experience exclusively to the
care of the invalid.
Doctor Templeton had been a traveller in his younger days, and at
Paris had become a convert, in great measure, to the doctrines of
Mesmer. It was altogether by means of magnetic remedies that he had
succeeded in alleviating the acute pains of his patient; and this
success had very naturally inspired the latter with a certain degree
of confidence in the opinions from which the remedies had been educed.
The Doctor, however, like all enthusiasts, had struggled hard to
make a thorough convert of his pupil, and finally so far gained his
point as to induce the sufferer to submit to numerous experiments.
By a frequent repetition of these, a result had arisen, which of
late days has become so common as to attract little or no attention,
but which, at the period of which I write, had very rarely been
known in America.
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