Professor Turner refers us to  Alison Winter, MESMERIZED: POWERS OF MIND IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN ,Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 246-275."

Ms. Winter's book applies traditional scholarship to a much reported aspect of 19th century English life. Many people in contact with or in opposition to Newman took mesmerism very seriously. Thus Archbishop Richard Whately was a founder in 1851 of the Dublin Mesmeric Association. (Winter, 134). Samuel Wilberforce, only six months before being named bishop of Oxford also plunged into mesmerism. (Winter, 250.) Thomas Arnold of Rugby was into the new craft. So were Robert and Henry Wilberforce. It is hard to imagine, therefore, that Newman himself did not spill some ink on the subject.