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Animal magnetism: a farce, in three acts ... / With remarks, biographical and critical, by D---G. [i.e. George Daniel] Mrs. Inchbald.
Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821Date: [1830?]
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Animal magnetism, and homeopathy; being the appendix to Observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy, and Germany / By Edwin Lee.
Lee, Edwin, -1870.Date: 1835
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Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, And other Commissioners, Charged by the King of France, with the Examination of the Animal Magnetism, as now Practised at Paris. Translated from the French. With an Historical Introduction.
France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal.Date: 1785
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Animal magnetism (mesmerism) and artificial somnambulism : being a complete and practical treatise on that science, and its application to medical purposes followed by observations on the affinity existing between magnetism and spiritualism ancient and modern / by the Countess C *** de St. Dominique.
St. Dominique, C., Countess de.Date: 1874
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Animal magnetism : report of Dr. Franklin and other commissioners, charged by the King of France with the examination of the animal magnetism as practised at Paris : translated from the French, with an historical outline of the "science", an abstract of the report on magnetic experiments made by a committee of the Royal Academy of Medicine in 1831, and remarks on Col. Stone's pamphlet.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.Date: 1837
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Animal magnetism or, Mesmerism : its history, phenomena, and present condition : containing practical instructions and the latest discoveries in the science / principally derived from a recent work by William Lang ; with a supplement, containing new and important facts, never before published in the U. States, by Chauncey Hare Townshend.
Lang, William, active 19th century.Date: 1844
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Animal magnetism history of its origin, progress and present state; its principles and secrets displayed, as delivered by the late Dr. Demainauduc. To which is added, dissertations on the dropsy, spasms, epileptic fits, St. Vitus's dance, gout, rheumatism, and consumption ... with ... cures and cases. Also, advice to those who visit the sick etc / By George Winter.
Winter, George, active 1787-1801.Date: [1801]
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Animal magnetism : history of its origin, progress, and present state, its principles and secrets displayed, as delivered by the late Dr. Demainauduc : to which is added, dissertations on the dropsy, spasms, epilectic fits, St. Vitus's dance, gout, rheumatism, and consumption : with upwards of one hundred cures and cases : also, Advice to those who visit the sick, with recipes to prevent infection; a definition of sympathy, antipathy, the effects of the imagination on pregnant women, nature, history; and On the resurrection of the body / by George Winter.
Winter, George, active 1787-1801.Date: [1801]
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Deeds of agreement, in which Mesmer engages to instruct various persons in the techniques of animal magnetism
Date: 1783-1784Reference: MS.7309/1-4
Part of: Mesmer, Franz Anton (1734-1815), Austrian founder of doctrine of animal magnetism
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Curious facts and anecdotes, not contained in the memoirs of Philip Thickness, Esq. Formerly Gunner of Landguard Fort, and Now Censor General of Great Britain, Professor of Empiricism, and Animal Magnetism, and Casual Compiler, Rape, and Murder-Monger to the St. James's Chronicle. Dedicated to that gentleman, by Benjamin Goosequill and Peter Paragraph. And now considerably enlarged by another hand. To which is now prefixed, an elegant print of Mr. Thickness, Taken from the Life.
Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.Date: M,DCC,XC. [1790]
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Essays in divinity and physic, proving the divinity of the person of Jesus Christ, and the spiritual sense of Scripture: in refutation of Dr. J. Priestley, and the Socinian system. With the True Method of Trying the Spirits. Also An Account of the Cause and Cure of our Sovereign's Late Illness, with an Exposition of Animal Magnetism and Magic. And An Appendix, Concerning the Impolicy of Separating, at present, from Communion with the Established Church. Also, Concerning the Further Connection of Divinity and Physic. By William Spence, M. D. Chirurg. Londinensis, et Societatis Exegeticae Succae Soc.
Spence, William, active 1780Date: [1792]
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Autograph letter, signed, from Mesmer to a Dr. Aubry
Date: 1802Reference: MS.7309/5
Part of: Mesmer, Franz Anton (1734-1815), Austrian founder of doctrine of animal magnetism
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Journal för animal magnetism, / af P.G. Cederschjöld.
Date: 1815-1821
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Letters to a candid inquirer on animal magnetism / by William Gregory.
Gregory, William, 1803-1858.Date: 1851
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Letters to a candid inquirer, on animal magnetism / by William Gregory.
Gregory, William, 1803-1858.Date: 1851
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Practical instruction in animal magnetism / by J.P.E. Deleuze ; tr. by Thomas C. Hartshorn.
Deleuze, J. P. F. (Joseph Philippe François), 1753-1835.Date: 1879
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Moral philosophy, animal magnetism, etc.
Chaussegros, Vital, b.1769.Date: c. 1830Reference: MS.1570
Part of: Chaussegros, Vital (1769- )
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Practical instruction in animal magnetism / by J.P.E. Deleuze ; translated by Thomas C. Hartshorn.
Deleuze, J. P. F. (Joseph Philippe François), 1753-1835.Date: [1879], ©1879
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Practical instruction in animal magnetism / By J.P.F. Deleuze ; Translated by T.C. Hartshorn.
Deleuze, J. P. F. (Joseph Philippe François), 1753-1835.Date: 1850
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Vandeleur, or, animal magnetism : a novel ... In three volumes / [Marianna Pisani].
Pisani, Marianna.Date: 1836
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Electricity, magnetism, and animal magnetism : a checklist of printed sources, 1600-1850 / compiled by Ellen G. Gartrell for the American Philosophical Society.
Gartrell, Ellen G.Date: [1975], ©1975
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Isis revelata: an inquiry into the origin, progress, and present state of animal magnetism / By J.C. Colquhoun.
Colquhoun, J. C. (John Campbell), 1785-1854.Date: 1836
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A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a seated female patient. Wood engraving, ca. 1845.
Date: [approximately 1845]Reference: 11823i
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Mesmer and animal magnetism / Iago Galdston.
Galdston, Iago, 1895-1989Date: 1948
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A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a woman who responds with convulsions. Wood engraving, 1845.
Date: 1845Reference: 11824i

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Animal magnetism: a farce, in three acts ... / With remarks, biographical and critical, by D---G. [i.e. George Daniel] Mrs. Inchbald.

Animal magnetism, and homeopathy; being the appendix to Observations on the principal medical institutions and practice of France, Italy, and Germany / By Edwin Lee.

Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, And other Commissioners, Charged by the King of France, with the Examination of the Animal Magnetism, as now Practised at Paris. Translated from the French. With an Historical Introduction.

Deeds of agreement, in which Mesmer engages to instruct various persons in the techniques of animal magnetism

Autograph letter, signed, from Mesmer to a Dr. Aubry

Journal för animal magnetism, / af P.G. Cederschjöld.

Letters to a candid inquirer on animal magnetism / by William Gregory.

Letters to a candid inquirer, on animal magnetism / by William Gregory.

Practical instruction in animal magnetism / by J.P.E. Deleuze ; tr. by Thomas C. Hartshorn.

Moral philosophy, animal magnetism, etc.

Practical instruction in animal magnetism / by J.P.E. Deleuze ; translated by Thomas C. Hartshorn.

Practical instruction in animal magnetism / By J.P.F. Deleuze ; Translated by T.C. Hartshorn.

Vandeleur, or, animal magnetism : a novel ... In three volumes / [Marianna Pisani].

Electricity, magnetism, and animal magnetism : a checklist of printed sources, 1600-1850 / compiled by Ellen G. Gartrell for the American Philosophical Society.

Isis revelata: an inquiry into the origin, progress, and present state of animal magnetism / By J.C. Colquhoun.

A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a seated female patient. Wood engraving, ca. 1845.

Mesmer and animal magnetism / Iago Galdston.

A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a woman who responds with convulsions. Wood engraving, 1845.