How to mesmerise : a manual of instruction in the history, mysteries, modes of procedure, and arts of mesmerism, or, animal magnetism, hypnotism, clairvoyance, thought reading, and mesmeric entertainments / by James Coates.

Coates, James, 1843-1933.

Date:: [between 1890 and 1899?]

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to mesmerise : a manual of instruction in the history, mysteries, modes of procedure, and arts of mesmerism, or, animal magnetism, hypnotism, clairvoyance, thought reading, and mesmeric entertainments / by James Coates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Mesmerist and Patient. From a bas-relief (in the British Museum) taken from an ancient tomb in Thebes. CHAPTER I. Historical Outline.—Mesmerism Prior to Mesmer. The principle called Animal Magnetism or Mesmerism being coeval with man’s existence, it doubtless lay at the foundation of the otherwise inexplicable, mysterious, and miraculous in the life and religions of ancient people. The following will serve to illustrate:—“The Charlatans,” says Celsus, “performed extraordinary cures by the mere apposition of the hands, and cured patients hy blowing. ” Among the Hebrews and Assyrians these means were resorted to in the cure of disease—“Haaman said, I thought he would stand and strike his hand [strike up and down in the original] over the place, and recover the

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