Hypnotism and the doctors / by Richard Harte.

  • Harte, Richard
Date:
1902-1903
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Credit: Hypnotism and the doctors / by Richard Harte. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CON TEN GS: PREFACE WHaT IS MEANT BY Hypnotism ?—The term ‘‘ Hypnotism ”’ indefinite—Importance of. Hypnotism to the public— The power of Suggestion—The Mesmerist and the Hypnotist—“ Hypnotism” now the inclusive name .. MesMER’s THEoRY.—Hypnotism the evolution of Animal Magnetism— Mesmer’s discovery—His Twenty-seven Propositions—The ‘vital fluid ’—Instinct—Mesmer’s theory of disease—The vis medicatrix—Man, a magnet —The ‘ Crisis ’—Human magnetism MesMEr’s Mertuops.—His instructions for magnetising— The baquets—The public treatments MESMER’S PERSONALITY.—Dr. Kerner’s: account—Herr von Lassberg’s relics of Mesmer—Mesmer’s visit to a great Baron’s Castle MESMER’S FIGHT FOR HIS DISCOVERIES IN VIENNA.— Deleuze’s estimate of Mésmer—Father Hell and his Magnets—Baron von Stoerk—Father Gassner the Exorcist—Mlle. Paradis’s blindness; her father’s state- ment; Mesmer’s account, .... . MESMER IN Parts.—Why he went there—Cases treated at Creteil—Mesmer’s treatment by the Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Medicine—Major du Hussay’s cure—Dr. Deslon and the Royal Society of Medicine— The King’s offer to Mesmer—The ‘moral’ baquet— The Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism Mesmer’s Later Lirr.—Mesmer goes to Spa—His bene- volence—The fund for the propaganda of his system— Animal Magnetism in Germany—Mesmer’s old age and death PAGE Vil. IO a3 44 7O