The Chinese sensitive leaf : discovered by a celebrated physician and eminent Professor of Botany and chemistry, named Zaphrintra, of China : afterwards introduced into other parts of the continent, and into England by a very learned and sensible foreigner.

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Title(s):: The Chinese sensitive leaf : discovered by a celebrated physician and eminent Professor of Botany and chemistry, named Zaphrintra, of China : afterwards introduced into other parts of the continent, and into England by a very learned and sensible foreigner.
Published/Created:: London : Sold by Charles Cheese 83, Union Street, [approximately 1825?]
Physical Description:: 1 sheet ([1] page) ; 22 x 14 cm + 1 printed 'sensitive' leaf.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
BF1874 .C454 1825 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/14060133
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Handbill describing parlour entertainment accompanied by one 'sensitive' leaf of a soldier with a sabre. The Chinese sensitive leaves were small pieces of thin material that when placed into someone's hand would react by curling in a way that would reveal the constitution of the person.
Early accounts of the same phenomenon include: A curious discovery: an account of the remarkable sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by Jan Pertista Chaseicto. Philadelphia : Printed by Hall and Pierie no. 51, Market-Street, [between 1807 and 1815].
Subject Terms:: Fortune-telling.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Pseudoscience.
Sympathy (Physiology)
Form/Genre:: Broadsides.
Ephemera.
Contributors:: Cheese, Charles, active 1825, publisher.
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