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    Franz Anton Mesmer (/ˈmɛzmər/ MEZ-mər; German: [ˈmɛsmɐ]; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized...
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  • Alan Rickman as Franz Anton Mesmer and depicts his radical new ways as a pioneering physician. In 18th century Vienna, Franz Anton Mesmer believes he is...
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    into light, connecting this idea with the 'subtle body' of alchemy. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815) borrowed from Newton's more occult theories with the intention...
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  • doctor from Vienna named Franz Anton Mesmer. Western scientists first became involved in hypnosis around 1770, when Franz Mesmer (1734–1815), a physician...
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  • magnetism, also known as mesmerism, is a theory invented by German doctor Franz Mesmer in the 18th century. It posits the existence of an invisible natural...
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  • Mesmer may refer to: Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), German doctor who postulated Animal magnetism, and for whom Mesmerism is named Gustav Mesmer, inventor...
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    Sinclair / Natalie's husband 1992 Bob Roberts Lukas Hart III 1994 Mesmer Franz Anton Mesmer 1995 An Awfully Big Adventure P. L. O'Hara Sense and Sensibility...
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    influenced by Roman republican portraits, represents the well-known doctor Franz Anton Mesmer. At about the same time, in 1770-72 Messerschmidt began to work on...
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  • lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1988 and is a distant relative of Franz Anton Mesmer, proponent of animal magnetism (or mesmerism) and Otto Messmer, the...
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  • Henri F. Ellenberger, in which the author discusses such figures as Franz Anton Mesmer, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Alfred Adler, and Carl Jung. The book...
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    the country" at that time. Alexander Gurwitsch Animal magnetism of Franz Anton Mesmer Energy (spiritual) Energy medicine Fringe science Integratron List...
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    Dantinne John Elliotson George Estabrooks Abbé Faria Ainslie Meares Franz Anton Mesmer Julian Ochorowicz Charles Lloyd Tuckey Otto Georg Wetterstrand Etzel...
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    anatomist Franz Joseph Gall. Other popular treatments included physiognomy—the study of the shape of the face—and mesmerism, developed by Franz Anton Mesmer—designed...
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    playing it, and even Marie Antoinette took lessons as a child from Franz Anton Mesmer.[citation needed] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his 1791 K. 617 and...
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    villa known as Fürstenhäusle. The famous eighteenth-century doctor Franz Anton Mesmer (from whose name the verb "to mesmerize" derives) died in 1815 in...
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    hypnotism. Hénin de Cuvillers was a follower of Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815). However, unlike Mesmer he did not believe in the existence of a "magnetic...
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    "Discovery of the Unconscious", placed the dispute between Gassner and Franz Anton Mesmer at the center of modern psychotherapy. Royal Commission on Animal...
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    physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1814), who developed the theory of Animal Magnetism, which later became known more commonly as Mesmerism. Mesmer claimed...
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    examine Franz Mesmer, Mesmer's theories, Mesmer's principles, Mesmer's practices, Mesmer's techniques, Mesmer's apparatus, Mesmer's claims, Mesmer's "cures"...
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    was treated from late 1776 until the middle of 1777 by the famous Franz Anton Mesmer, who was able to improve on her blindness temporarily until she was...
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    twice for manslaughter of his patients who died under this treatment. Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), was a German physician and astrologist, who invented...
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  • suspended. More fortunate was Mesmer (1993), a biographical film of the 19th century pseudo-scientist Franz Anton Mesmer. Potter's film, Secret Friends...
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    the nervous system, there came a new interest in the spirit world. Franz Anton Mesmer spoke of the stars, animal magnetism and magnetic fluids. In 1801...
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    Viennese-trained physician, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), for whom it is named. The basis of this doctrine was Mesmer's claimed discovery of a new aetherial...
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  • mathematician – Mersenne prime, Mersenne's laws, Mersenne twister. Franz Anton Mesmer, German hypnotist – Mesmerism, "to mesmerize". Messalina, Roman empress...
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    1752. possibly Vienna, October 1768, in the garden of Dr Franz Mesmer). Dr Franz Anton Mesmer was the founder of the form of hypnotherapy known as "mesmerism"...
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  • murdered their parents in 1989 Mesmer (1994) – Austrian-Canadian-British-German biographical drama film about Franz Anton Mesmer and his radical new ways as...
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    and Isaac Newton. It also suggests influences on Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Anton Mesmer, Jules Verne, and Marcel Duchamp. In the end, Glassie writes, Kircher...
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    scientific study of hypnotism, following on from the work of Franz Mesmer. Unlike Mesmer, who claimed that hypnosis was mediated by "animal magnetism"...
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    magnet therapy (the alleged healing power of magnets), although it was Franz Anton Mesmer who went further with this and received most of the credit. In 1771...
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