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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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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edited by one of the Professors of the University of Strasburg, and his science triumphant in Berlin, Jena, Bonn, Halle, Tubingen, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, and even in Vienna. In spite of laws and law-givers. Animal Magnetism performed the most wonderful cures. Dr. Malfati, one of the most talented of the physicians in Vienna, adopted Mesmer’s system, and practised it with great effect. Following Mesmer, the most active and intelligent of his converts or followers was the Marquis de Puysegure. He pursued the practice of Mesmerism at his estate at Buzancy, both as a study and recreation. One day, call- ing at the house of his steward, he referred to what he had seen in Paris, where he had attended Mesmer’s lectures. Obtaining permission to mesmerise the steward’s daughter, to his surprise and delight she was in a very short time thrown into a sleep. He also suc- ceeded, by similar passes, in mesmerising the wife of his gamekeeper. He was now confirmed in his faith, and became one of the most successful mesmerists of his day. He was the first to discover the mesmeric-somnambulistic condition. It happened in this way. He was mesmeris- ing a young man for the cure of consumption. While making the requisite passes, the patient fell into a peace- ful sleep—the true mesmeric sleep is exceedingly calm and recuperating. While in this sleep Victor talked with an intelligence rare to the waking condition; and while in that state prescribed the remedies necessary to his recovery. Numerous instances of a like character occurring under the Marquis’s influence, he at length published a work on the subject, and both on his estate and at Paris devoted much time to Mesmerism for the cure of disease, in which he was eminently successful. De Puysegure’s views as to the cause of the phenomena