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Apr 27, 2017 · Mesmer was an 18th century doctor who developed the theory of animal magnetism (more about that later), as well as a related style of treatment that came to be known as mesmerism.
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) by Jessica Riskin, Associate professor of History, Stanford University. Franz Anton Mesmer, a doctor from the Swabian village of Iznang, was born on 23 May 1734, the third of nine children of a gamekeeper and forest warden to the Archbishop of Constance.
Franz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) discovered what he called magnétism animal (animal magnetism) and others often called mesmerism. Mesmer's ideas and practices would later be developed by James Braid as modern hypnosis.
Dec 6, 2011 · Mesmerized. The controversy around animal magnetism. Detail of Franz Anton Mesmer portrait. In the late 1770s, in the midst of the French Enlightenment, Franz Anton Mesmer was at the height of his medical career.
Mar 5, 2019 · Franz Mesmer's hypnotic health craze. Employing his theories of animal magnetism, Franz Mesmer conducts a therapy session with his patients positioned around a large baquet. Photograph by...
Mesmerism, named after its chief theoretician and practitioner, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), also known as Animal Magnetism, was one of the most popular medical theories of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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 the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", later referred to as mesmerism.
