Statuvolism, or artificial somnambulism, hitherto called mesmerism or animal magnetism : containing a brief historical survey of Mesmer's operations and the examination of the same by the French commissioners : the identity of these conditions with other states and mysteries : together with an account of several obstetrical cases delivered while in this state, the proper method of preparing subjects for surgical operations, their management during and after the same, and the latest and best method of curing disease, etc. in those persons who are in that condition / by Wm. Baker Fahnestock.

  • Fahnestock, Wm. Baker (William Baker), 1804-1886.
Date:
1871
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Credit: Statuvolism, or artificial somnambulism, hitherto called mesmerism or animal magnetism : containing a brief historical survey of Mesmer's operations and the examination of the same by the French commissioners : the identity of these conditions with other states and mysteries : together with an account of several obstetrical cases delivered while in this state, the proper method of preparing subjects for surgical operations, their management during and after the same, and the latest and best method of curing disease, etc. in those persons who are in that condition / by Wm. Baker Fahnestock. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARTIFICIAL SOMNAMBULISM. CHAPTEE I. HISTORICAL SURVEY, MERMER's THEORY—ITS EXAMINATION BY THE FRENCH COMMIS- SIONERS—THEIR CONCLUSIONS—TUB AUTHOR'S REMARKS, ETC. T is now well known that Mesmer was not the first who discovered what he was pleased to de- nominate Animal Magnetism. Its application PrP to the cure of diseases had been practised by the Gauls, Komans, Greeks, Hebrews, and even the Egyptians; but without attempting to trace it back to the more remote periods of antiquity, it will be sufficient to remark, that early in the seven- teenth century, a celebrated physician, Van Helmot, exhibited a knowledge of it in his writings; and William Maxwell, an Englishman, in sixteen hundred and seventy-nine (1679), laid down propositions simi- lar to those promulgated by Mesmer. About the middle of the same century, several other operators appeared in England—a Doctor Streper, Leveret, and Valentine Greatrakes, who professed to cure diseases by stroking with the hands. 37 ft c>£>