They were persecuted by their brethren as long as they lived.

The respectable body of Parisian doctors displayed all the bitterness of religious warfare against the Mesmerists, and were as cruel in their hatred as it was possible to be in those days of Voltairean tolerance.

The orthodox physician refused to consult with those who adopted the Mesmerian heresy.

In 1820 these heretics were still proscribed.

The miseries and sorrows of the Revolution had not quenched the scientific hatred.