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Mesmerism

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  • Mesmeric therapy. Oil painting by a French (?) painter, 1778/1784.
  • An exotic doctor magnetises a young woman; her husband looks on. Lithograph by C. Jacque, c. 1843.
  • A horse-drawn hearse pulls away from a doctor's; representing the dire state of the medical establishment according to James Morison, pill-vendor and self-styled 'Hygeian'. Lithograph, c. 1848.
  • A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
  • A practictioner of Mesmerism using Animal Magnetism
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Catalogue

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    Franz Anton Mesmer : his life and teaching / by R.B. Ince.

    Ince, Richard Basil, 1881-1967 | Date: 1920
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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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    Le Mesmerisme Confondu.

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    Report of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the London Mesmeric Infirmary : 1855.

    London Mesmeric Infirmary. | Date: 1855
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    Le magnetisme.

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