ABSTRACT
Miss Florence Cook of Hackney undertook a clairvoyant diagnosis of Eusapia’s condition. Miss Cook perceived that Eusapia kept low company, and was followed by an undesirable man; and there is every indication that Miss Cook was right. C. Lombroso had long been known as a determined sceptic, and as a result of his conversion to belief in the phenomena a number of scientists held a series of seventeen sittings with Eusapia in Milan late in 1892. Eusapia was placed facing the sitters on a chair at the junction of the curtains, which were then joined over her head. The sitters, including Eusapia, would group themselves round a table; at the beginning of a seance they would sit by lamp-light, later in the dim light that came through the shutters from the note-taker’s lamp and from the moon. Whilst Eusapia was supposedly well controlled, sitters would be touched, grasped or prodded as if by hands; sometimes hands would actually be seen.
