• Animal magnetism (redirect from Mesmerism)
    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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    inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", later referred to as mesmerism. Mesmer's theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850...
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    and proclaimed mesmerism a complete fallacy. In fact, the experiments did not prove the girls were faking nor did they show that mesmerism was false. By...
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  • The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Applications to Human Welfare was a British journal, devoted to the promotion of the...
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  • 1846 and permanently closed in 1848, Elliotson "continued to practise mesmerism at the Sukeas' Street Dispensary until he left India in 1851". In 1848...
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  • speculated to be Suejiro Bakuro, the originator of Japanese mesmerism in Mamiya's mesmerism literature. In the video, a female subject was hypnotized by...
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    Braid, gentleman scientist.     The first who investigated the matter [of mesmerism] in a scientific way, and who deserves more honour than he has yet received...
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  • Vitalism (section Mesmerism)
    that King Louis XVI of France appointed two commissions to investigate mesmerism; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by Benjamin Franklin...
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    his mesmeric career nor the career of mesmerism in England. From 1842 he became an advocate of phreno-mesmerism – an approach that amalgamated the tenets...
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    to Maine from France on an extended lecture tour in New England about mesmerism, also widely known as hypnotism. He was a French mesmerist who followed...
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    new album is coming soon. In April, Mac confirmed the album is titled Mesmerism and will be released on 3 May 2019. Decades after completing his earlier...
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    an early advocate of mesmerism in England (and, later, joint editor of The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Applications...
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    Hippolyte Ferdinand Baraduc (Hyères, Var, France, November 15, 1850 – Paris, France, May 1, 1909) was a French physician and parapsychologist, highly known...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mesmerize or mesmerise may refer to: Mesmerism, a pseudoscientific theory about life force "Mesmerise" (song), a 1991...
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    and his knowledge of their later association with Elliotson and his mesmerism, and their well-attested fraudulent deception of Elliotson, must have...
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    nature. (Harte, Hypnotism and the Doctors, p. 66.) He was introduced to mesmerism in Brussels, in 1831, by the Belgian lithographer, inventor, and scholar...
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    through mesmerism eventually won out in Elliotson's hospital, putting phrenology in a subordinate role. Others amalgamated phrenology and mesmerism as well...
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    Ernest Valdemar, which have incited public discussion. He is interested in mesmerism, a pseudoscience involving bringing a patient into a hypnagogic state...
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  • de Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace Étienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers, French mesmerism expert Jacky Hénin Jérémy Hénin Justine Henin, Belgian retired professional...
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    concluded, through blind trials that mesmerism only seemed to work when the subjects expected it, which discredited mesmerism and became the first major demonstration...
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  • conducted. The commission later declared that Mesmerism worked by the action of the imagination. Although Mesmerism remained popular and "magnetic therapies"...
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    the Shroud (1909). He had a writer's interest in the occult, notably mesmerism, but despised fraud and believed in the superiority of the scientific...
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    Martineau underwent a course of mesmerism, returning to health after a few months. There was national interest in mesmerism at this time. Also known as "animal...
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    means–fixedness of look and cerebral fatigue. Faria changed the terminology of mesmerism. Previously, the focus was on the "concentration" of the subject. In Faria's...
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    Vril for mesmerism, but for electricity, developed into uses as yet only dimly guessed, and including whatever there may be genuine in mesmerism, which...
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