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A practical manual of animal magnetism; containing an exposition of the methods employed in producing the magnetic phenomena; with its application to the treatment and cure of diseases ... / by Alphonse Teste ; translated from the second edition by D. Spillan.

  • Teste, Alph. (Alphonse), 1814-
Date:
1843
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Credit: A practical manual of animal magnetism; containing an exposition of the methods employed in producing the magnetic phenomena; with its application to the treatment and cure of diseases ... / by Alphonse Teste ; translated from the second edition by D. Spillan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANIMAL MAGNETISM. CÉFAPEER D HISTORICAL SURVEY. § I. Mesmer and his Theory. Ir is now well-nigh sixty-five years since animal mag- netism made its entrée into the world. Its discovery is gene- rally attributed to Mesmer, a physician of Vienna.* The nature and limits of this work will not allow us to give in this place a detailed history of this discovery, with all the changes it underwent in Germany from the first practical attempts of Mesmer in 1773 to 1778, in which year he came to France. It may be well to mention, however, that it was in almost total despair of the cause that Mesmer left his * F, Antoine Mesmer was born at Weiler, near Stein, on the Rhine, in 1734; died at Mersburg, near the Lake of Constance, on the 5th of March, 1815. He studied medicine under Van Swieten and de Haen, and was admitted a doctor at the Faculty of Vienna in 1766. His inaugural dissertation was well calculated to indicate the bias of his mind; it was entitled, Of the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body. 4 aS B