![]() ![]() Seven months later, the doctor is called to the dying man’s bedside. A friend agrees to be the subject of this experiment. He is curious to see what would happen to an individual put under hypnosis while dying. A doctor has become fascinated by mesmerism. Robert Collyer, an English magnetic healer visiting Boston, wrote to Poe saying that he himself had performed a similar act to revive a man who had been pronounced dead (in truth, the man was actually a drunken sailor. Many readers thought that the story was a scientific report. Sidney Doane that recounted a surgical operation performed while a patient was "in magnetic sleep." The letter served as inspiration for Poe's tale. While editor of The Broadway Journal, Poe printed a letter from a New York physician named Dr A. Valdemar is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. ![]()
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