• Animal 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...
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  • Animal Magnetism is the seventh studio album by German rock band Scorpions, released in 1980. The RIAA certified the record as Gold on 8 March 1984, and...
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    The Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism involved two entirely separate and independent French Royal Commissions, each appointed by Louis XVI in 1784,...
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    Franz Mesmer (category Animal magnetism)
    occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", later referred to as mesmerism. Mesmer's theory attracted a wide...
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  • Look up animal magnetism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Animal magnetism is the name given by Franz Mesmer in the 18th century to what he believed...
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    by Franz Mesmer and his followers (which was called "Mesmerism" or "animal magnetism"), but differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked. People...
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    for which Eddy used terms such as animal magnetism, hypnotism, or mesmerism interchangeably. "Malicious animal magnetism", sometimes abbreviated as M.A.M...
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    Association's Annual Meeting). Braid first observed the operation of animal magnetism, when he attended a public performance by the travelling French magnetic...
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  • on 8 June 2001. Michael O'Sullivan (June 1, 2001). "Schneider's 'Animal' Magnetism". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 19, 2020...
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    His interest in animal magnetism was revived by reading the works of Crêpe and Azam. He is on the fringe at a time when animal magnetism was completely...
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    music critics, and significant commercial success with the albums Animal Magnetism (1980), Blackout (1982), Love at First Sting (1984), the live album...
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    Animal Magnetism is a 1788 comedy play by the English writer Elizabeth Inchbald. A three-act farce, it premiered as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal...
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  • called "animal magnetism" or "mesmerism" (the latter name still remaining popular today). The use of the (conventional) English term animal magnetism to translate...
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  • other materials. Magnetism may also refer to: Magnetism (album), album by Matthew Shipp Magnetism, song by Eugene Record Animal magnetism, variously sexual...
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  • performances to audiences by reference to supernatural powers and animal magnetism. Ormond McGill, e.g., in his Encyclopedia of the subject wrote in 1996...
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    In 1784, the French Royal Commission investigated the existence of animal magnetism, comparing the effects of allegedly "magnetized" water with that of...
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    Human magnetism is a popular name for the supposed ability of some humans to attract various objects to their skin. People alleged to have such an ability...
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  • years after they married; she believed he had been killed by malicious animal magnetism. Six years later, when she was 67 and apparently in need of loyalty...
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    universe, a creative substratum in all of nature comparable to Mesmer's animal magnetism (1779), to the Odic force (1845) of Carl Reichenbach and to Henri Bergson's...
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    death. In 1784, when Franz Mesmer began to publicize his theory of "animal magnetism", which was considered offensive by many, Louis XVI appointed a commission...
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    Medien. Retrieved 14 December 2011. Peak positions for Canada: For Animal Magnetism: "RPM: Top Albums/CDs – Volume 22, No. 17, July 19, 1980". RPM. Retrieved...
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  • In the 18th century, Franz Mesmer ignited debate with his theory of animal magnetism. Attention to vitalism grew in the 18th and 19th centuries. Interest...
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    physician, came up with the theory of “animal magnetism”, later referred to as mesmerism. Mesmer saw “animal magnetism” as energy that flowed through the...
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    Lynn, Hypnosis: A Brief History (2009) p. 1 Coates, James (1904), Human Magnetism; or, How to Hypnotise: A Practical Handbook for Students of Mesmerism...
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    hypnotism "developed at a time when the general public was fascinated in 'animal magnetism' and 'mesmerization'", which was later revealed to be a method of inducing...
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  • James Esdaile (category Animal magnetism)
    with the East India Company, is a notable figure in the history of “animal magnetism" and, in particular, in the history of general anaesthesia. The eldest...
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  • Neurypnology or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism Illustrated by Numerous Cases of its Successful Application in the...
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    and disease. Animal magnetism was but one of series of postulated subtle fluids and substances, such as caloric, phlogiston, magnetism, and electricity...
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  • Biomagnetism (redirect from Bio-magnetism)
    have appeared several hundred years ago, linked to the expression "animal magnetism". The present scientific definition took form in the 1970s, when an...
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    Containing All the Modern Discoveries" (1790) Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism "Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford...
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