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A practictioner of Mesmerism using Animal Magnetism

A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a woman who responds with convulsions. Wood engraving, 1845.

A man hypnotising a woman using the animal magnetism method. Engraving, 1802, after D. Dodd.

A goat-headed man caresses a sleeping ewe-headed woman; representing the notion of animal magnetism and its application by physicians. Etching after M. Voltz (?), 1815.

A large gathering of patients and assistants to Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy, showing use of the special tub at his clinic. Wood engraving by H. Thiriat.

A mesmerist using animal magnetism on a seated female patient. Wood engraving, ca. 1845.

Lt. Col. Ashburnham performing animal magnetism on Lt. Col. Forbes. Pen and ink drawing, 183-.

Patients in Paris receiving Mesmer's animal magnetism therapy. Coloured etching after C-L. Desrais.

Somnambulisme et médiumnité, 1784-1930 / Bertand Méheust.

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.

Untersuchungen über den Lebensmagnetismus und das Hellsehen / von Johann Carl Passavant.

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].

Expériences publiques sur le magnétisme animal faites à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris / [J. Dupotet].

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Animal magnetism

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Somnambulisme et médiumnité, 1784-1930 / Bertand Méheust.

Untersuchungen über den Lebensmagnetismus und das Hellsehen / von Johann Carl Passavant.

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].

Expériences publiques sur le magnétisme animal faites à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris / [J. Dupotet].

Animal magnetism

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Images referencing Animal magnetism

Works from the collections

Somnambulisme et médiumnité, 1784-1930 / Bertand Méheust.

Untersuchungen über den Lebensmagnetismus und das Hellsehen / von Johann Carl Passavant.

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].

Expériences publiques sur le magnétisme animal faites à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris / [J. Dupotet].

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