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  • The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, as Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c.&c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained / by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c.

    • Bell, John, professor of animal magnetism
    Date
    1792
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  • Untersuchungen über den Lebensmagnetismus und das Hellsehen / von Johann Carl Passavant.

    • Passavant, Johann Karl, 1790-1857
    Date
    1837
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  • Esquisse de la nature humaine expliquée par le magnétisme animal ; précédée d'un aperçu du système général de l'univers, et conténant l'explication du somnambulisme magnétique, et de tous les phénomènes du magnétisme animal ... / [Anon].

    • Chardel, C. (Casimir), 1777-1847
    Date
    1826
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  • Expériences publiques sur le magnétisme animal faites à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris / [J. Dupotet].

    • Dupotet, J. (Jules), 1796-1881
    Date
    1826
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  • Mr. Gardner, the hypnologist : discoverer of the system of producing sound and refreshing sleep at will, without the aid of medicine, animal magnetism, or anything connected with them.

    Date
    [between 1800 and 1899]
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  • Human magnetism; its claims to dispassionate inquiry. Being an attempt to show the utility of its application for the relief of human suffering / [William Newnham].

    • Newnham, W. (William), 1790-1865
    Date
    1845
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  • Rapport des Commissaires chargée par le Roi, de l'examen du magnétisme animal / Imprimé par ordre du roi, sur la copie imprímée au Louvre.

    • France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal
    Date
    1784
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  • The taming of the ray : electric fish research in the enlightenment from John Walsh to Alessandro Volta / Marco Piccolino.

    • Piccolino, Marco
    Date
    2003
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  • Essai sur la théorie du somnambulisme magnétique. Par Mr. T. D. M. Novembre 1785.

    • T. D. M. (Tardy de Montravel).
    Date
    1786
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  • Animal magnetism, or, Mesmerism and its phenomena.

    • Gregory, William, 1803-1858
    Date
    1884
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