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Something wrong?He convinced half of Europe that invisible magnetic fluid flowed through bodies and could cure disease by waving magnets near patients. The theory was junk, but the trance states he induced were real - and gave us hypnosis.
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Franz Anton Mesmer. Oil painting. Wellcome V0017975 (cropped)
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Franz Anton Mesmer by Jules Porreau
Franz Anton Mesmer, MRF - Vizille
Franz Anton Mesmer. Engraving by Dupin after C.-L. Desrais. Wellcome L0025121
Franz Anton Mesmer. Oil painting. Wellcome V0017975In their own words 1
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Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician with a side interest in astronomy who, in the late 18th century, theorized that a natural energy he called "animal magnetism" transferred between all objects, living and dead. He built a practice around manipulating this invisible force to treat illness, and between 1780 and 1850 the method found a wide following across Europe. The magnetic fluid didn't exist, but the phenomena he triggered did: in 1843, Scottish doctor James Braid studied Mesmer's technique and renamed the trance state "hypnotism." The word "mesmerism" survives as a synonym. Mesmer also kept company with Haydn and Mozart, supporting music when he wasn't magnetizing the unwell.
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