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2055:"Mesmer states that magnetism is to the bodily organs as the wind is to the windmill . . . If the wind ceases to blow, the milling process comes to a halt, and should the cessation continue for long enough, the windmill may fall into disrepair or even ruin. The salvation of the miller comes when the wind begins to blow again, making the machinery of the windmill work again. . . . greater effort is required to start a windmill after it has stopped than to keep it going, especially if disrepair has set in. . . . when animal magnetism ceases to course freely through the nervous system, the organs begin to malfunction and the whole physiology slows down. Fluids become stagnant and viscous and begin to block the blood vessels and other canals of the body. . . . The symptoms become worse because the organs grow weaker as the obstructions grow larger and larger and vice versa. Mesmer thought the organs then must be galvanized into a greater effort than ever before to push the fluids through the natural channels, and it is animal magnetism that galvinizes them." – (Buranelli, 1975, p. 108) 1526: 3098: 3086: 656: 1234: 2717: 1633: 3456: 3509: 2289: 2265: 2277: 2253: 810:, both of whom "had benefited from Mesmer's treatment", Marie Antoinette had been able to arrange for both Mesmer and d'Eslon to be officially "interviewed" by (an otherwise unidentified) representative of the King on 14 March 1781 (Walmsley, 1967, p. 267). At the conclusion of the interview, Mesmer reluctantly agreed to the proposed conditions: that a number of his (previous and current) patients be examined by a team of "commissioners" – it was also stipulated that, as a "requirement" of the King, Mesmer was to "remain in France", until his "doctrines" and his "principles" had been thereby "established", and that he was "not leave except by permission of the King" – and that, if the commissioners' reports were "favourable", the government would issue "a ministerial letter" to that effect (Pattie, 1994, p. 110). 1246: 3261: 2977: 3138: 3126: 2921:] half deep, which is called the bucket ; the lid of this box is pierced with a number of holes, in which are inserted branches of iron, elbowed and moveable. The patients are arranged in ranks about this , and each has his branch of iron, which by means of the elbow may be applied immediately to the part affected; a cord passed round their bodies connects them one with the other: sometimes a second means of communication is introduced, by the insertion of the thumb of each patient between the forefinger and thumb of the patient next him; the thumb thus inserted is pressed by the person holding it; the impression received by the left hand of the patient, communicates through his right, and thus passes through the whole circle. 1041: 2087: 2099: 2075: 2886: 2367: 3600: 1836: 1983:" is a vat about six to seven feet, more or less, in diameter by eighteen inches in height. There is a double bottom in the interior of this vat, in which fragments of broken bottles, gravel, stones, and sticks of pounded sulfur and iron filings are placed. All of this is filled with water and covered up with a floor nailed into the vat. On the surface of the lid, six inches in from the rim, one makes various holes in order to allow the passage of iron rods which are arranged so that one end penetrates the bottom of the vat and the other is directed, by means of a curve, over the pit of the stomach of the patient or other affected parts of the body." 696: 3580:
approximation at some distance. This action, attributed to a universal fluid not demonstrated, certainly appertains to animal heat existing in bodies, which constantly emanates from them, is carried to a considerable distance, and is capable of passing from one body into another. Animal heat is developed, increased, or diminished in a body by moral as well as by physical causes. Judged by its effects, it participates in the property of tonic remedies, and like them produces salutary or injurious effects according to the quantity communicated, and according to the circumstances in which it is employed. – de Jussieu, 1784, pp. 50-51.
680: 1147: 3238:"The most reliable way to ascertain the existence of Animal-magnetism fluid would be to make its presence tangible; but it did not take long for the Commissioners to recognize that this fluid escapes detection by all the senses. Unlike electricity, it is neither luminescent nor visible. Its action does not manifest itself visibly as does the attraction of a magnet; it is without taste or smell; it spreads noiselessly & envelops or penetrates you without your sense of touch warning you of its presence. Therefore, if it exists in us & around us, it does so in an absolutely undetectable manner." – Bailly (1784a), p. 9. 2580:"Here is what I said to M. de Lassonne; however bizarre at first sight it is nevertheless entirely serious and very much applicable to the question. When a thief is convicted of theft he is hanged: when a murderer is convicted of murder he is executed on the wheel. But to exact these terrible penalties the thief is not required to thieve again to prove that he is a thief, and the murderer is not required to murder a second time to prove that he is a murderer. One is content to establish by testimony and by material evidence that the theft or the murder was committed and then one hangs or executes on the wheel in good conscience. 1226: 3271:"The uniformly critical tone of this private document was in stark contrast to the scrupulously evenhanded voice of the official report; . . . message was blunt: the practice of animal magnetism was a threat not only to health . . . but also to morality, especially in the case of weak, virtuous women. . . . provided an explicit description of a certain kind of prolonged "convulsion" that resulted not from the alleged healing power of animal magnetism but rather from the close physical contact and mutual arousal of male magnetizers and female patients who did not fully understand what was being done to them. Deslon [ 2497:, writing in the seventeenth century, deemed a vulgar error was the belief in sympathy as a unifying force working outside the human state, in this instance between two magnetically charged needles that of themselves are clearly incapable of having feelings, sensibilities, and affections. This alternative use of sympathy experienced a resurgence in the early 1780s, particularly in the field of animal magnetism, a practice that drew on the study of magnetism and electricity and fused these with the language of magic and the occult, blurring the boundaries between superstition and rational experimental philosophy. 1709: 1954: 3738: 3281:, how easy it would be to abuse a woman in such a state. Many women had been in treatment for years without being cured. Most of them were not ill to begin with, but had been drawn to the clinic for the amusement it provided, attending regularly as a relief from boredom. Around the tub, the ease with which symptoms spread from person to person was striking. The commissioners reiterated the health risks of inducing full-blown crises, a dangerous practice that any responsible physician would shun. They implied the possibility that magnetic seances were a deliberate fraud." 42: 591:"The report of the Royal Commission of 1784 . . . is a masterpiece of its genre, and enduring testimony to the power and beauty of reason. . . . Never in history has such an extraordinary and luminous group been gathered together in the service of rational inquiry by the methods of experimental science. For this reason alone the . . . is a key document in the history of human reason. It should be rescued from obscurity, translated into all languages, and reprinted by organizations dedicated to the unmasking of quackery and the defense of rational thought." – 1000: 2334:, who reported (at Servan, 1784, p. 3) that, in "the Provinces" – where the various social classes were not kept apart around "the baquet", as they were in Paris – that, in relation to the concerns that the Commissioners expressed in relation to the "seizures" they had observed (and identified as one of the principal "dangers of magnetism"), he (Servan) had only observed "barely a few convulsions" ("not at all annoying in themselves") in only five or six individuals out of the fifty whose sequential treatments (and responses) he had observed in person. 3839: 3500:"imagination", and/or "imitation", but also the influence of "the environment of the treatment room with its closed windows, fetid air, dim light, and the sight of other patients " – and, as Laurence notes, that "the results . . . were not due to animal magnetism but to the patients‘ rest, exercise, abstinence from medication, and hopes for a cure!" (2002, p,316) – and that, from this, there was no reason for "the procedures to which the name "animal magnetism" has been given introduced into the practice of medicine" (Pattie, 1994, p. 157). 6001:" (subjects experiencing the operator's physical sensations of taste, smell, etc.: see Townshend, 1840, p. 65; Melton, 2001a, p. 319, 2001b, pp. 989-990, etc.), clairvoyance (seeing persons/events distant in time or place: see Melton, 2001a, pp. 297-301), psychical rapport (able to read operator's thoughts, and be mesmerised from a distance: see Crabtree, 2008, p. 569), and ecstasy ("immersed in an elevated state of consciousness with an awareness of spiritual things": see Crabtree, 1988, p.xxiv; 2008, p. 569)." 8549: 2177: 1847: 619:"Before the investigations began, had studied the writings of d'Eslon and drawn up a plan for the conduct of the inquiry. He decided that the commissioners should not study any of the alleged cures, but they should determine whether animal magnetism existed by trying to magnetize a person without his knowledge or making him think that he had been magnetized when in fact he had not. This plan was adopted by the commissioners, and the results came out as Lavoisier had predicted." – Frank A. Pattie (1994). 3664:, including François Louis Thomas d'Onglée and Charles-Louis Varnier, who "openly favored animal magnetism or were suspected of so doing". According to the contemporary account of Thomas d'Onglée (1785, passim), the thirty "magnetic physicians" were subjected to "abuse" and were presented with a declaration, of which it was demanded that they sign. Both Thomas d'Onglée and Varnier, among others, refused to sign the declaration (and were, thereby, immediately expelled). The declaration in question read: 3308: 2973:
displayed no "magnetic" phenomena at all. For instance, during the investigations conducted at Franklin's residence, d'Eslon "magnetized" one of five trees in Franklin's garden and, when a "sensitive" subject was brought to the trees, he fainted at the foot of one of the other four; and, on another occasion, during the investigations undertaken at Lavoisier's house, a normal cup of water swallowed by a subject (who believed the water to be "magnetized") immediately produced "magnetic" phenomena.
4965:" was taken to be a refutation of the claims of Animal Magnetism, and is still believed generally to be so; but, if examined, it is found to have avoided the main issue -- whether Mesmer had discovered a new means for curing disease -- and to have confined itself to the theoretical question, whether or not there exists a universal medium such as Mesmer described, and whether the curious effects which no one denied that the process of Mesmer produced, were caused by it" (Harte (1902), p. 66). 3221:] unanimous voice respecting the existence and the utility of the magnetism, that the existence of the fluid is absolutely destitude of proof, that the fluid having no existence can consequently have no use, that the violent symptoms observed in the public process are to be ascribed to the compression, to the imagination called into action, and to that propensity to mechanical imitation, which leads us in spite of ourselves to the repetition of what strikes our senses. – George Winter (1801). 704: 3966: 3864:, when ambassador from America, and of other philosophers at Paris. If any person would repeat these experiments, they should be performed with due solemnity. During the process, the wonderful cures which this remedy is said to have performed ought to be particularly related. Without these indispensable aids, other trials will not prove as successful as those which are above reported. The whole effect undoubtedly depends upon the impression which can be made upon the patient's Imagination. 3555: 2565: 672: 4364:"Blinding (or masking) in is the process of withholding information about treatment allocation from those who could potentially be influenced by this information. Blinding has long been considered an important safeguard against bias. Benjamin Franklin, in 1784, was probably the first to use blinding in scientific experimentation. Louis XVI commissioned Franklin to evaluate mesmerism, the most popular unconventional "healing fluid" of the eighteenth century. By applying 2504: 664: 1587:"When Mesmer took a patient, his first concern was to determine whether the ailment was organic or functional. If it was organic, the result of physical damage to the tissue, he considered it, following Proposition 23, beyond the aid of animal magnetism. If it was functional, a physiological disorder affected by the nerves, it fell within the class of diseases he felt uniquely qualified to handle with his therapeutic technique." (Buranelli, 1975, pp. 107-108). 636:"For clearness of reasoning and strict impartiality has never been surpassed. After detailing the various experiments made, and their results, they came to the conclusion that the only proof advanced in support of Animal Magnetism was the effects it produced on the human body – that those effects could be produced without passes or other magnetic manipulations – that all these manipulations, and passes, and ceremonies never produce any effect at all 3592: 2737:– and even if the Commissioners were able "to strip from these therapeutic effects all of the illusions which might be involved with them" – any such determination would require an "infinity of cures", supported by the "experience of several centuries". And, further, given the specified goal of the commission, the significance of whatever its findings might be, and the obligation to produce its Report "promptly", the Commissioners considered that, 1218: 3485:(pp. 2–21), discussing the theories of the practices known as "Animal Magnetism". It commences with d'Eslon's definition of "animal magnetism"; namely that it is "the action which one man exercises on another, either through immediate contact or at a certain distance by the mere pointing of a finger or any kind of conduct", and that "this action", according to d'Eslon, "is the effect of a fluid that is distributed throughout the universe" 936:
medicable" (pp. 441–459) – there were also significant tensions, differences, and boundary disputes between the more theory- and principle-centred Paris Faculty of Medicine (formed some five centuries earlier), and the more practitioner-centred Royal Society of Medicine (formed just 5 years earlier), the "primary function" of which was "to evaluate patent medicines and, by extension, new forms of therapy" (Forrest, 1999, pp. 18–19).
6925:"The discovery of mesmero-phrenology was made by Dr. Collier in America, by Mr. Atkinson in London, in Nov. 1841, and by Mr. Mansfield at Cambridge, in Dec. 1841, and not by his friend, Mr. Gardener, in Hampshire, who merely observed, that the organ of tune was pained when he played some notes of music out of harmony — an effect which has nothing to do with mesmero-phrenology, and a matter of common experience in our ordinary condition. 3154: 1938: 1025:"At length was thought to deserve the attention of government, and a committee, partly physicians, and partly members of the royal academy of Sciences, with doctor Benjamin Franklin at their head, were appointed to examine it. M. Mesmer refused to have any communication with these gentlemen; but M. Deslon, the most considerable of his pupils, consented to disclose to them his principles, and assist them in their enquiries." – 4066: 8858: 3826: 3176: 3169:"Knowing that their report would be published and that the task of convincing the public lay wholly in their hands, the authors produced an account that was both scientifically sound and accessible, making for compelling reading. Chronology was unimportant; few dates were specified. The rationale for every decision and the details of every experiment, however, were explained in terms that anyone could understand. 5520:
both electricity and magnetism, and inviting their views and comments. He received only one reply: that from the Berlin Academy: "The Academy's reply was negative and, in Mesmer's view, showed a complete misunderstanding of animal as distinguished from mineral magnetism" (Pattie, 1994, p. 42). For details of the Academy's reply see Mesmer, 1784, pp. 21-22 (translated at Pattie, 1994, pp. 45-46).
4005: 1113:"If the effects of magnetism . . . can be as well explained by the effects of an excited or exalted imagination, all the efforts of the Commissioners must be directed to distinguishing in "magnetism" . . . a single conclusive experiment . . . those things that are related to physical causes from those that are related to causes , the effects of a real agent from those due to the imagination. . . . 2310:
never more than six or seven who displayed "convulsions" to any degree – and, further, of the more than 500 patients he had treated over the preceding three years, only 20 of those had manifested "convulsions" (and almost all of those had been suffering from "convulsions" before presenting for any treatment from d'Eslon). He also rejected the suggestions of any connection between the "convulsions" of
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fluid the proper attraction and repulsion. In the divers crossings of those individual atmospheres, some emanations are more attractive between two beings, and others more repulsive; so again, when one body possesses more fluid than another, it will repel; and that body which is less will make an effort to restore itself into equilibrium or sympathy with the other body. — Ebenezer Sibly (1820).
7203: 3681: 7780:('Aphorisms of M. Mesmer dictated to the assembly of his students, in which are found his principles, his theory, and the methods of msgnetizing, the whole forming a body of doctrine developed in 344 Paragraphs. Work brought to light by M(onsieur) C. de V., a physician to the house of Monsieur (viz., Comte d’Artoir, the brother of the King), Third Edition)', Paris: Bertrand Compiègne 688: 6150:"We see men succumb, it seems, to the same sickness, cured by taking contradictory treatments, and in taking entirely different treatments; Nature is thus powerful enough to support life in spite of poor treatment, and able to triumph over both illness and its remedy. If she has this power to resist remedies, then she has all the more reason to have the power to work without them." 3381:, they were unable to detect the presence of d'Eslon's supposed (substantial) "fluid" (p. 6). From this absence of "physical evidence", they were forced, instead, to "examine the affections of the spirit and the ideas of those who had been exposed to the action of 'Magnetism'"; and, from this, ceased to be "physicists", and became nothing more than "philosophers" (p. 8). 2032:. Mesmer regarded these as an inevitable accompaniment of the process of normalization of the flow of animal magnetism, and had special padded "crisis rooms" in which patients could throw themselves about without hurting themselves, while Mesmer or his assistants gave them individual attention. The depth of the crisis naturally varied from case to case, but Mesmer insisted that 1516:(c) the natural pathway along which the agent's therapeutic effects are realized, so that, in its application, these outcomes can be systematically anticipated – meaning that, with this knowledge, the (otherwise random) clinical applications can be controlled, regulated, and incrementally applied in a systematic way, until the target goal of a "cure" is attained (p. 49). 3109:
the Commissioners were more than satisfied that d'Eslon's theories, principles, methods, and practices were consistent with those that Mesmer had made known through his publications; and, moreover, having acquired this thorough understanding of the "theory and practice of animal magnetism", the Commissioners then concentrated their efforts on determining the effects of its
2825:"the hope that they conceived, the exercise that they took every day, the suspension of the remedies they were previously using – the quantity of which is often so harmful in such cases – these are, in themselves, multiple and sufficient causes for the results that have been said to have been observed in similar circumstances". – Poissonnier, et al. (1784, p. 36). 1781:, his membership of the Faculty of Medicine was never reinstated; and unlike Mesmer, he remained in Paris following the publication of the reports of the two Commissions. Although apparently in good health in the preceding months, he died somewhat suddenly in Paris, on 21 August 1786, at the age of 47, from a complex of disorders including pneumonia, a malignant fever ( 1799: 2943:") by d'Eslon – and, also, given that "the existence of alleged magnetic fluid was only based on the effects on the patients: in other words, the existence of a physical entity inferred not from instrumental measurements and/or quantitative considerations, but by the psychophysical reaction of a living body" (Bersani, 2011, p. 61) – it is significant that, 1556:
to use the method of "trial" exorcism. He entreated the Devil to defy Jesus by producing the patient's symptoms. If the convulsions or other symptoms appeared, Gassner believed they were the work of the Devil; he proceeded to exorcise the responsible demon. If symptoms failed to appear, he could not attribute them to a demon and sent the patient to a physician. –
3362:("Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the best policeman": Brandeis, 1913, p. 10), the Commissioners (p. 4) remarked that, in terms of the "good Government" of an "Enlightened nation", "the distribution of light is a fine use of authority!" ( 3196:(i.e., Godwin, 1785), and, in between February and July 1785, four different "periodical abridgements of the Franklin report, each printed multiple times in the Atlantic coast publications" were published in the United States (Ogden, 2012, p. 167); and, in 1837, Godwin's complete translation was published, in Philadelphia, as part of a collected work. 1584:"Mesmer's approach to healing and his healing theory were physically oriented. His explanation of the phenomena of animal magnetism was consistently formulated in terms of matter and motion, and he believed that every aspect of animal magnetism could sooner or later be verified through physical experimentation and research." (Crabtree, 1993, p. 51) 4429:(1814), which he wrote after a month-long visit with Mesmer, in Meersburg, in September 1812. According to Buranelli (1975, p. 201), Wolfart's work included "some of the best eye-witness notes we have on Mesmer"; and, also Buranelli (ibid.) notes that Wolfart "took the final Mesmer manuscript away with him to be published under the title 5449:" had not been requested by Mesmer or any of his followers. It is possible that some noblemen, who were patients of d'Eslon, used their influence to have set up; it is also possible that the King and his advisors were annoyed by the strife and were determined either to accept animal magnetism or to get rid of it" (Pattie, 1994, p. 142). 4893:, "one of the most beautiful women in France who was very close to Franklin during his time in Paris and whom Franklin was pursuing strongly" (p. 323), on a visit to Mesmer's establishment specifically to observe Mesmer's use of Franklin's glass armonica. It is also significant that the glass armonica now held in the collection of the 3697:
commissioners' recommendation that the practice of magnetism should be prohibited . . . would hardly be possible ", because, apart from those within the medical profession who had been trained by himself and by Mesmer, "a large number of other people had, as a result of their own study, begun to practice it" (Pattie, 1994, p. 171).
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separately, a number of Mesmer's followers published a composite volume (i.e., Mesmer, et al., 1784) of 478 pages, which included a number of previously published items written by Mesmer, as well as a number of shorter and up-to-date contributions from a range of various authors describing their continued success with animal magnetism.
1363:(1959, pp. 7–8), is that "Mesmer's theory itself . . . diverted attention from the phenomena produced by animal magnetism to the agent alleged to produce them"; yet, both 1784 Commissions side-stepped this issue, and "simply ascribed the magnetic cures to imagination, but never bothered to ask how imagination can produce a cure". 4095:) – relied upon an induction process that often involved rubbing the top of a patient's head. This requirement, of course, demanded that Freud sat at the end of the therapeutic couch – in order to gain easy access to his subject's head – a practice that Freud continued to follow for his entire (post-"hypnosis") professional career. 8673: 3528:, writing in 1841, drew attention to the fact that, in the process of their (1784) investigations, the "Society" Commissioners identified three categories of patient treated by d'Eslon – (a) those with an "obvious ailment" with "a known cause", (b) those with "mild" and "vague" ailments with no known cause, and, finally, (c) 746:– appointed at a specific time, in specific circumstances, with specific goals and, further, in order to apprehend the nature of their investigations, their findings, and the immediate consequences of their reports, a complex of different factors need to be examined (as has been suggested by Craver & Darnden, 2013): 1138:
doubt Franklin's curiosity was aroused by the mere connotation of the term animal magnetism, for it implied something in connexion with electricity, and himself had already made a number of experiments on the effect of electric discharges on paralytics, epileptics, etc." (Duveen & Klickstein, 1955, p. 287).
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consequence of the magnitude of the force of the flow of water that has been applied (through the currently stationary waterwheel) to the milling mechanism, which is, in and of itself, directly related to the extent to which the (now-operative) milling mechanism was formerly stationary, out of order, or, even, jammed:
1921:– an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin himself – that were associated with a wide range of (figurative) magnetic connotations, such as the use of "magnetic wands", and the treatment tub known as "the baquet", which, in the view of Yeates (2018, p. 48), were "obviously, designed to amplify each subject's " 3291:) from d'Eslon's treatments – which were, they noted, both "very long" and "unfruitful" – and, also, stress that, among d'Eslon's patients, those who had been under his treatment for 18 months to 2 years, without any benefit, ceased to present for any further treatment, having exhausted their patience (p. 152). 4822:"It is in these things which we neither see nor feel, that it is especially necessary to guard against the extravagancy of our imagination, which forever inclines to step beyond the bounds of truth, and is very difficultly restrained within the narrow line of facts" (translation taken from Kerr, 1790, pp. 6-7). 4642:(Wolfart, 1814, pp. 225–341), "we find texts on the organization of society, legislation and government, education, justice and worship, as well as a draft constitution, which indisputably show that Mesmer had fixed political ideas, closely linked to his theory of animal magnetism and his moral philosophy." 958:", but also one that had no affiliation of any kind with any known professional medical association within France (or elsewhere in Europe); and, as a consequence, his professional conduct, his medical practice, his medico-commercial enterprises, and his therapeutic endeavours were not regulated in any way. 6086:"One cannot avoid the suspicion that the Commissioners were relieved that they were able to extricate themselves from a full investigation of the remarkable phenomena they had observed at the baquet, an investigation for which at the time there was no precedent and no methodology..." (Forrest, p. 67). 1672:) are well known to the medical profession, the mechanisms involved are not; and, so, in these cases, "facts" and "experience" are "our only guides" – and, in a similar fashion, asserts d'Eslon, "in relation to Animal Magnetism, it is the same, I don't know how it works, but I do know that it does work". 2844:– in the commonly expressed (in modern literature) and extremely misleading misrepresentation of affairs; namely, the (historically incorrect, and mistaken) implication that, rather than simply having, for convenience, accepted Mesmer's assertions at face value (and left it at that), both Commissions had 851:"Meditating Mesmer returned to his clinic and put his name to what would surely be one of the most extraordinary letters ever written to a queen of France even if he had sent it privately. Instead, he had it printed, rating her in public about the offer made in her name and giving her an ultimatum." 3516:
Although the "Society" Commission did not directly investigate the clinical efficacy of d'Eslon's therapeutic interventions, and did not examine the circumstances of any earlier (i.e., pre-Commission) "cures" claimed by d"Eslon, two members of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Charles Burdin (1778-1856)
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In the process of examining d'Eslon's claims, the "Franklin Commissioners" not only tested the influence of a wide range of situations, circumstances, variables, but also, from time-to-time, individually presented themselves as experimental subjects, because, they reported, "they were very curious to
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In order to understand the significance of the two Commissions' concentration on their examination of d'Eslons' claims for the existence of "animal magnetism" (rather than, that is, conducting an examination of the clinical efficacy of Mesmer's actual therapeutic practices) – and, in order to clarify
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Following his break with Mesmer, d’Eslon not only launched his own clinical operation – on his break with Mesmer, d'Eslon took all of the patients he had brought to Mesmer with him – but also began teaching his own theories and practices (i.e., rather than those of Mesmer). According to d'Eslon's own
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In addition to his general scientific interests in electricity and (terrestrial) magnetism, "Franklin had known Mesmer for some years prior to the investigation and was familiar with the practice of animal magnetism", and, on occasion, he and Mesmer had even "dined together" – and, also there was "no
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in November 1839; and, prior to Collyer's later retraction, two others claimed to have independently confirmed the veracity of Collyer's "discovery": the architect, Henry George Atkinson (1812-1890), at London, in November 1841, and the chemist, Charles Blandford Mansfield (1819-1849), at Cambridge,
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A measure of the influence of . . . the claims investigated, the methods employed, and the conclusions reached . . . the Franklin Report is seen in the changing fortunes of Mesmer during the months of 1784. Prior to the submission of the Report, Mesmer had been the toast of Paris, dealing with many
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They clearly state (p. 3) that, on the basis of a presentation given to the Commissioners, by d'Eslon (at his residence), on 9 May 1784 – at which d'Eslon had not only described his version of the "theories" of "animal magnetism", but also described and demonstrated his therapeutic procedures –
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and when not" – and, as Jensen, et al. (2016, pp. 13) observe, the Commissioner's use of blindfolding very strongly suggests that, rather than " interested in proving they believed to be true", their investigations concentrated on "disproving, rather than proving, the efficacy of treatments";
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The physician is the minister of nature; an attentive observer, he studies the method in which she proceeds. If that method be firm, strong, regular and well directed, the physician looks on in silence, and disturbing it by remedies which would at least be useless; if the method be , he facilitates
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had been objectively verified, the existence of those "cures", in and of themselves, would not have provided conclusive evidence of (metaphorical) "animal magnetism" – and, in support of their decision, the Commissioners cited Mesmer's own statements: viz., that "nothing conclusively proves that the
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In its initial conception, Mesmer's "baquet" was "a vat containing bottles of magnetized water from which steel bars escaped through which the 'magnetization’ took place in the , who were arranged around the tub holding their hands" (Morabito, loc.cit.). According to Mesmer's own description, in the
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Although the investigations of the "Society Commission" were less thorough and less detailed than those of the "Franklin Commission" they were essentially of the same nature, and it is a matter of fact that neither Commission examined Mesmer's practices – they only examined the practices of d'Eslon.
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Majault was not one of the original group of Commissioners. The original commissioner was Professor Jean-François de Borie -- a medical practitioner and advocate of hydrotherapy (e.g., de Borie, 1714) -- of the Paris Faculty, who died on 21 May 1784. Majault, also a member of the Paris Faculty, was
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they had been 'magnetised') – the Commissioners concluded that the "principle" involved was the subject's "imagination"; and, therefore, as a consequence of their investigations, they were well satisfied that they had been "fully successful" in experimentally proving that the observed "effects" had
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Clearly "recogniz that publicly endorsing the curative effects of a technique that had no demonstrable basis in the science of the late 18th century could lead to a proliferation of medical quackery" (McConkey & Perry, 2002, p. 328) and, based on their own "experiments" and "observations",
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In support of this decision, and noting that "observations over the centuries prove & Physicians themselves recognize, that Nature alone & without the help of medical treatment cures a great number of patients", the Commissioners agreed with the previously expressed observations of Mesmer –
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By contrast with many "faith healers", had a quasi-scientific method of diagnosis, according to which he separated diseases that should be treated by a physician from those that he should treat. He first admonished the patient that faith in the name of Jesus was essential. He then obtained consent
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Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism . . . he employed the term magnetism to characterize a reciprocal relationship between the forces of nature and the human body, and conceived of nature as the harmony of these relations in action . . . contains a number of themes and theoretical concepts common
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cosmology": and, moreover, "to consider animal magnetism independently of the tradition out of which it emerged is to magnify its distinctively occult characteristics and to diminish in importance those features that mirror the scientific and philosophical temper of the age in which it flourished."
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According to Tatar (1990, p. 49), rather than Mesmer's proposal being some sort of "occult theory", " actually remained well within the bounds of eighteenth-century thought when he formulated his theories" and "the theories invoked to explain fit squarely into the frame of eighteenth-century
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of either his supposed "animal magnetism" or his supposed "magnetic fluid", and (b) that all of the effects that they had observed could be attributed to a physiological (rather than metaphysical) agency. Whilst each Commission implicitly accepted that there was no collusion, pretence, or extensive
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Aphorismes de M. Mesmer, dictés à l'assemblée de ses Élèves, & dans lesquels on trouve ses principes, sa théorie & les moyens de magnétiser; le tout formant un corps de Dóctrine développé en trois cens quarente-quatre paragraphes, pour faciliter l'application des Commentaires au Magnestism
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Upon this head the commissioners are of the opinion of M. Mesmer. He rejected the cure of diseases, when this method of proving the magnetism was proposed to him by a member of the academy of sciences: "It is a mistake", replied he, "to imagine that this kind of proof is unanswerable; it cannot be
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It is important to note that, despite the dissertation providing a series of "brief case histories" wherein "the symptoms waxed and waned with the gravitational influences of the sun and the moon, which produced tides in the ocean and atmosphere and also . . . in the human body", "the dissertation
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Given that the "Society" Commissioners' investigations were far less complex than those conducted by the "Franklin Commission" – and, also, given that the (smaller number of) experiments that they described "duplicate similar ones in the Report" (Pattie, ibid., p. 156) – the report itself is
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That constant flux and reflux of the vital principles and corporeal humours in man (without which both motion and life are stopped) produce those effects of sympathy and antipathy which become more natural and less miraculous; the atmospherical particle to each individual receives from the general
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By magnetising people without their knowledge and by persuading them that they are being magnetised when they are not . . . one will obtain separately the effects of magnetism and those of the imagination and, from this, one will be able to conclude what should be attributed to the one and what to
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At a time when, in relation to "healers and healing", the conglomerate of "physicians, empirics, surgeons, apothecaries, folk healers, and religious personalities all vied with each other (as well as worked together) for medical legitimacy and patients" (Broomhall, 2004, p. 5), Mesmer was not
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between the conventional therapeutic practices of the sorts that Brockliss and Jones (1997) usefully identify as lying within the established "medical penumbra" (pp. 230–283) and the novel and innovative practices at the "frontier" that were (potentially) responsible for the "expansion of the
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In noting that "the degree of hypnosis attainable does not depend on the physician's procedure but on the chance reaction of the patient", Freud also speaks of the "strikingly soothing and lulling effect . . . stroking the patient's face and body with both hands continuously for from five to ten
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to a number of eminent scientists and, also, to a number of German and foreign scientific associations (see Mesmer, 1784, pp. 21-22), in which he presented the details of his over-arching theoretical "principle", describing its "nature", "action", and "properties" through direct analogies to
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Crabtree (loc. cit.) also notes that, as "a disciple of the surgeon J.L. Petit and a highly respected member of the powerful Faculty of Medicine, d'Eslon gave a prima facie legitimacy to the practice of animal magnetism"; and, further, that " high standing with the faculty held out the hope that
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According to Pattie (1994, p. 116), this work, despite being "the chief source for the history between 1779 and 1781", and providing "a recital of Mesmer's difficulties in propagating his theories and having them investigated by learned societies", "contains little about theories and little
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Spanos and Gottlieb (1979, p. 538) noted that, "The church was particularly concerned by reports of clairvoyant phenomena occurring within mesmerism. Clairvoyance, it will be recalled, had traditionally been one of the church's most rigorous tests of demonic possession. Its occurrence allowed for
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However, having been unable to operate as physicists, they had decided to follow the standard procedures of "chemists" – who, having "decomposed substances" and thereby discovered their "principles", assured themselves of the "exactness" of their findings by "recomposing" the same substances from
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The report was immediately published by the government printer; and at least 20,000 copies were rapidly and very widely circulated throughout France and neighbouring countries. Within four months (16 December 1784), the London publishing house of Joseph Johnson was announcing the publication of a
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the most opposite, have not prevented the attainment of an advanced old age. We may there see men, attacked according to all appearance with the same disease, recovering in the pursuit of opposite regimens, and in the use of remedies totally different from each other; nature is in these instances
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Each Commission took five months to complete its investigations. The "Franklin" Report was presented to the King on 11 August 1784 – and was immediately published and very widely circulated throughout France and neighbouring countries – and the "Society" Report was presented to the King five days
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Animal Magnetism: Report of Dr. Franklin and other Commissioners, charged by the King of France with the Examination of the Animal Magnetism as practised at Paris: Translated from the French, with an Historical Outline of the "Science", an Abstract of the report on Magnetic Experiments made by a
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All who Mesmer taught were required to sign a contract declaring that they would not reveal any of Mesmer's doctrines, teach mesmerism to others, or open a mesmeric clinic without Mesmer's express permission: see Forrest (1999, pp. 37-38) for a translation of a (typical) contract -- in this
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According to Gray (2018, p. 54), "Mesmer was an outsider, both as a foreigner and as someone who was found to be unacceptable to the scientific community; doubts about his credibility had circulated and Mesmer reinforced these by making it clear that he had privilege to a technique that was
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Inspired by these studies, a number of other scholars, in other scientific domains – such as, for example, Shermer (1996), Kaptchuk (1998), Green (2002), Best, Neuhauser, and Slavin (2003), Herr (2005), Lanska & Lanska (2007), Kaptchuk, Kerr & Zanger (2009), Davies Wilson (2014), Jensen,
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entirely free to publish Mesmer's material – and, in doing so, he had not altered one word of Mesmer's "maxims" – and, moreover, he was certain that, given Mesmer's dissemination of his ideas through his already published works, Mesmer would not be "offended" by the publication of his aphorisms.
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On 4 September 1784, Bailly presented a third, brief (15 page) courtesy report to the Royal Academy of Sciences (Bailly, 1784b) on behalf of himself, Franklin, Le Roy, de Bory, and Lavoisier (i.e., those Commissioners who were also Academy members), which provided their Academy colleagues with a
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Notwithstanding Mesmer's earlier refusal to co-operate, and aside from the fact that the two Commissions were specifically charged with investigating d’Eslon's claims for the existence of "animal magnetism", there were two additional, significant reasons for not investigating the veracity of the
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In his response to the Reports (d'Eslon, 1784b, pp. 21–22), d'Eslon complained that the Commissioners' emphasis on "convulsions" was not justified: among those who received group treatment during the commission's investigations (i.e., involving "50 to 60 individuals"), he wrote, there were
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Mesmer's overall stress on the quest for "harmony" as a therapeutic outcome and, especially, given the demonstrated fact that the effects of his 'animal magnetism' – predicated upon the presence of a force analogous to gravity – were equally demonstrated by all, regardless of age, gender, class,
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This method of discovering the truth, distinctly proves to what a surprising degree mere fancy deceives the patient himself; and if the experiment had been tried with the metallick Tractors only, they might and most probably would have deceived even medical observers. Yet this test of truth was
3538:") – and, significantly, having followed the collective progress of d'Eslon's patients over a period of four months, the Commissioners found no evidence of any kind that any members of the '(a) group' (many of whom had been receiving d'Eslon's treatment "for more than a year") had been "cured" ( 2777:
What is the object of the efforts of the physician in this method? It is not to oppose and to subdue nature, it is to assist her in her operations. Nature, says the father of the medical science , cures the diseased; but sometimes she encounters obstacles, which constrain her in her course, and
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Deleuze, J.P.F. (1814), "Sur l’analogie des phénomènes du Magnétisme avec les autres phénomènes de la nature; et conjectures sur le principe de l’action magnétique (‘On the analogy of magnetic phenomena with the other phenomena of nature; and conjectures on the principle of magnetic action’)",
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for Mesmer's students -- who were "dissatisfied with Mesmer's teaching" and "resorted to Bergasse, asking him to give them a more coherent account" (Pattie, 1994, p. 131). Pattie (1994, p. 132) also notes that, in consequence of "Mesmer's poor command of French", Bergasse "frequently
4831:"Benjamin Franklin, the American minister to France living at Passy, received the signal honor due his international eminence of being named to head the commission. His age (seventy-eight) made his appointment nominal his duties devolved upon his colleagues..." (Buranelli, 1975, p. 161). 4368:
to participants, Franklin removed their knowledge of when mesmerism was and was not being applied. Blinding eliminated the intervention's effects and established mesmerism as a sham. From this work, the scientific community recognised the power of blinding to enhance objectivity and it quickly
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In the process of discussing the experiments he had conducted (with medical colleagues as witnesses) with (dummy) "wooden tractors" on 7 January 1799, and with Perkins' "true metallick tractors" on 8 January 1799, Haygarth emphasized his considerable debt to the (earlier) "Franklin Commission"
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The theory of magnetism cannot be admitted so long as it will not be developed and supported by solid facts. The experiments instituted to ascertain the existence of the magnetic fluid prove only that man produces on his like a sensible action by friction, by contact, and more rarely by simple
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In the process of their investigations they discovered that many non-"magnetised" subjects – wrongly believing themselves to have been "magnetised" – displayed a wide range of "magnetic" phenomena; and, by contrast, supposedly "magnetised" subjects, believing themselves to be non-"magnetised",
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The "Franklin" Commission's investigations were conducted at a number of different locations, including d’Eslon's clinic (which they visited once a week), Lavoisier's home, and the gardens of Franklin's Passy residence. The intricate structure and detailed procedures of the investigations were
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The action of a medicine, introduced into the human body, is a new force, combined with the principal force by which our life is maintained: if the remedy follow the same route, which this force has already opened for the expulsion of diseases, it is useful, it is salutary ; if it tend to open
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Rather than being concerned with the applications, utility, and clinical efficacy of d'Eslon's "animal magnetism", the primary concern of each Commission was the significant, crucial, and exclusive question of whether or not d'Eslon's (supposed) "animal magnetic fluid" actually existed in some
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One interesting aspect of a number of the pro-d'Eslon and pro-Mesmer responses to the Commissions' Reports, collectively, was that they provided figures on the level to which the author in question had observed individual patients manifest full-blown "magnetic crises" as a consequence of their
1817:" of Hell's approach, purchased a number of steel magnets from Hell in 1774 and began applying them to his patients; however, as Pattie reports (1994, p. 2), Mesmer "had abandoned the use of magnets" by 1776, because his own clinical experimentation had proved them to be utterly useless. 4485:
In his summary of the "Society Commission's" report (i.e., Poissonnier, et al., 1784), Pattie (1994, pp. 156–158) notes that the report's references to the issue of d'Eslon's "contact", and its mention of "a lengthy application of the hands, the heat produced by this application, and the
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Caullet de Veaumorel's work, which made no mention of d'Eslon's theories, teachings, or clinical procedures, went into three editions. Caullet de Veaumorel stressed that although, as a "disciple of d'Eslon", he was bound by his "word of honour" not to reveal any of d'Eslon's teachings, he was
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of "magnetic" treatment – d'Eslon published an 80-page supplementary volume (i.e., d'Eslon, 1784c), that provided the case histories of 115 individuals (the majority of whom were identified by name), that had been successfully treated by d'Eslon's procedures for a very wide range of diseases.
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It is already more than six years since Animal Magnetism was announced to Europe, particularly in France and in this Capital. But it is only over about the last two years that it has been of particular interested to a considerable number of citizens and that it has become the object of public
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Consequently, to accurately understand the contemporary significance of the Commissions' work, and the matters that they severally and collectively examined (and, as well, those which they did not) it is important to identify the wide range of significant tensions, disputes, and circumstances
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plausibility", had (initially) seemed to promise such a wide range of valuable therapeutic and moral applications – "soon morphed into theatrical performances demonstrating the ‘reality’ of phrenology to credulous audiences, with lecturers pressing specific locations on the cranium of their
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The Commissioners (Bailly, 1784, p. 15) stressed that, because they had been specifically charged with determining whether (or not) d'Eslon's "magnetic fluid" actually existed in some substantial form, and because it was obvious that, in order to unequivocally settle the "uncertain" and
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d'Eslon immediately published an attack on the commission's reports, in which he criticized their failure to investigate the longer-term effects of his treatments, and their refusal to accept his (alleged) "cures" as proof of the existence of "animal magnetism", as well as noting that, "the
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In a prevailing atmosphere of " redefinition of frontiers in the legitimacy of knowledge" – and, in relation to Mesmer's claims, a redefinition "which did not necessarily match the public popularity that they attracted" (Zanetti, 2018), p. 59) – the issue of the existence (or not) of a
5013:, Doctor of Liberal Arts and Philosophy'). Having been unable to find any other reference in any of Mesmer's extensive works (or anywhere else) to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Pattie (1994) concluded that "it is reasonable to suspect that this degree was self-conferred" (p. 15). 3753:
Further, and immediately following the publication of the Reports of the two Commissions, both Nicolas Bergasse (1750-1832) (Bergasse, 1784) and Antoine Esmonin, Marquis de Dampierre (Esmonin, 1784) wrote strong criticisms of the Commissions' orientation, investigations, and findings; and,
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The conclusions drawn (pp. 37–39) were, in brief, that they had found no evidence of d'Eslon's "magnetic fluid", that there were "no grounds for any belief in animal magnetism", that "the effects attributed to it are due to known causes", including not only the influence of "contact",
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brief account of the commission's proceedings, the rationale behind its investigations, and the results. Noting that all of their investigations were jointly conducted with the four members of the Paris Faculty, and that all nine shared the same "interest in the truth", they stressed that
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by the flow of water. – he usefully extended those analogies to explain the circumstances in which "crises" occur, especially in relation to the magnitude of the "crises": i.e., the dramatic circumstances of the sudden restoration of the lost function of a watermill installation – a direct
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complete translation (including "Propositions") at Tinterow (1970), pp. 32–57, and at Bloch (1980), pp. 41–79; translation of "Propositions" (only) at Binet & Féré (1888), pp. 5–8, Anon (1911/1912), pp. 1557–1558 Goldsmith (1934), p. 117-121, Buranelli (1975),
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there were sufficient “effects” (such as, for instance, ‘post-magnetic amnesia’) unattributable to "imagination" that still required further investigation into their exact nature; and, therefore, he argued, the continued use of animal magnetism was justified" (Yeates, 2018, p. 50).
6466:, in the hope of learning Mesmer's "secret"), that everything that he had observed could be attributed to "the imagination", "touch", and "imitation" (declaration reprinted at Figuier, 1860, pp. 177–178; translations at Podmore, 1908, p. 55, and at Pattie, 1994, p. 133). 4806:
At Lavoisier (1865, pp. 508-510) "Remarques de Lavoisier", at p. 510: translation taken from Donaldson (2014), p. 27. Although the item is undated, it was obviously (from its content) compiled following the Commission's investigations and prior to the publication of its
5231:"Mesmer rejected the idea that psychological factors were involved, since he could treat infants and comatose patients with apparent success, and he scornfully rejected the notion that he was 'healing through the mind', calling it 'a miserable objection'." (Pattie, 1994, p. 2). 3054:"Rather than introducing a problem – the Franklin report . . . provided a language for addressing one that already existed, forcefully articulating the suspicion that mechanical imagination could plague natural philosophers and religious "fanatics" alike" (Ogden, 2012, p. 149). 5538:"Mesmer regarded animal magnetism as a matter of "sympathetic vibration" just as much as music, and argued that it could be communicated, propagated and reinforced by sounds" (Kennaway, 2012, p. 273) -- Mesmer's assertion is in his Proposition 19 (at Mesmer, 1779, p. 79). 1485:
It is significant that Mesmer (1799) describes how, once he had formulated the abstract, overarching (metaphorical) construct/concept of "animal magnetism" as the therapeutic agent (a quarter of a century earlier) – and with his hope that this newly described "principle of action"
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According to Armando & Belhoste (2018, pp. 6–8), the true history of Mesmer, of Mesmer's version of 'animal magnetism', and of the rationale, conduct, investigations, experimentation, and findings of the 1784 Royal Commissions has been seriously distorted by the modern
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that ferments and, in the long run, corrupts the mass into which it has been introduced". By contrast, however, in those cases wherein the "error" has been generated by "The Empire of Science", and has spread to "the multitude" – not only to divide and agitate minds, but also,
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On 15 May 1782, d'Eslon presented the Faculty with his arguments in the form of a 144-page pamphlet; and then, "on 26 October 1782, was finally struck from the roster and forbidden to attend any meeting for a period of two years" (Duveen & Klickstein, 1955, p. 286).
3299:" in the Gallery above) – although they had not examined any of Mesmer's methods, etc., their findings applied equally to Mesmer and his methods, especially in relation to the attribution of all observed phenomena to "contact", "imagination", and/or "imitation" (p. 154). 1689:"If Mesmer had no other secret than that he has been able to make the imagination exert an influence upon health, would he not still be a wonderful doctor? If treatment by the use of the imagination is the best treatment, why do we not make use of it?" (1780, pp. 46-47). 974:
As discussed at considerable length by Spanos and Gottlieb (1979) there were not only a wide range of controversial secular and religious issues relating to the similarities and differences between the induction, manifestations, and immediate and long-term consequences of the
1482:) these metaphysical abstractions (p. 16) – one is induced to believe in the actual physical existence of the "substance" itself. Given these observations, Mesmer was most emphatic in his continuous warnings that his abstract "principles" should not be "substantivised". 4706:
only two interpretations: The clairvoyant was either divinely inspired or demonically possessed. Because there was nothing about mesmerism that the church would consider divine, satanic influence remained as the only possible explanation for transcendent mesmeric phenomena."
5946:"Magnetic demonstrator" – Alan Gauld's term (Gauld, 1992 p. 204) – accurately describes Lafontaine. Whilst in the U.K. Lafontaine only demonstrated "magnetic" phenomena; he did not demonstrate its applications to the treatment of patients at any time (in public or private). 2522:(1841) Manchester encounter with the "magnetic demonstrator" Charles Lafontaine, those who were still committed to the existence of a substantial 'magnetic fluid", etc., maintained that the phenomena produced by their acts of "magnetization" were of two general classes – 847:, and given that the impetus for the first interview had come from the Queen, Mesmer wrote an extraordinary letter (translated at Pattie, 1994, pp. 112–115), the nature of which would have meant imprisonment in the Bastille, if it had been written 20 years earlier. 5996:
Yeates (2018), p. 52: "'higher' phenomena included: displays of transposition of the senses (hearing with fingers, sensing colours with the soles of the feet, etc.: see Melton, 2001a, 533-534; 2001b, pp. 1027, 1359-1360, 1499, 1585, etc.), physical rapport or
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Very well! It is the same with me. I ask, kindly, to be treated like a man to be executed on the wheel or hanged and that an effort should be made to establish that I have cured without asking me to perform new cures to prove that I am to be regarded as someone who
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Moreover, and significantly, Mesmer (separately) acknowledged that, if it was ever to come to pass that he had a suitable "establishment" – i.e., one with sufficient space available for all the assembled patients to hold hands – he would "abolish the use of baquets"
739:, which prompted the need for an official investigation of the particular nature and type that was undertaken, and the sort of (implicit) issues – in addition to the more specific questions of medicine and of science – that their inquiries would, hopefully, address. 3473:
The first of the two reports, made by four of the five Commissioners (of 39 pages) – namely, Charles-Louis-François Andry, Claude-Antoine Caille, Pierre Jean Claude Mauduyt de La Varenne, and Pierre-Isaac Poissonnier – was presented to the King on 16 August 1784.
3491:(pp. 22–37), discussing the procedures and practices of "Animal Magnetism", as well as addressing the issues of their therapeutic efficacy (or not), and those of whether (or not) the procedures/practices should be admitted to conventional medical practice (" 1651:
In stressing the efficacy of Mesmer's "animal magnetism" interventions, d'Eslon defended (at p. 124) the absence of clear explanations (from Mesmer) of the mechanism through which "animal magnetism" effects its "cures" with an observation that, although the
1525: 6839:" with rare (and methodologically limited) exceptions, comparative prospective clinical trials were . . . employed the twentieth century, thus allowing many ineffective and harmful traditional therapies to remain in routine use by orthodox physicians (e.g., 8859:
Lanska, D.J., & Lanska, J.T. (2007). "Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method", pp. 301-320 in H. Whitaker, C.U.M. Smith, and Stanley Finger (Eds),
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in 1756 for his ground-breaking work on the nature of electricity, and his invention of the lightning rod -- had made a presentation to the Royal Society on 12 January 1758, on "the Effects of Electricity in Paralytic Cases" (Franklin, 1758); see also Finger
5052:-- "an energetic and leading member of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a vigorous opponent of animal magnetism" (Gauld, 1992, p. 19) -- Mesmer's "principles" did not "belong" to him; and, rather than his theories representing some "piquant novelty" ( 2868:"Although it is entirely correct to assert that both sets of Commissioners accepted that Mesmer's "cures" were, indeed, "cures", it is completely wrong to suggest that any of the Commissioners accepted that any of those "cured" individuals had been "cured" 2359:
certain ambiguities, and correct particular errors that persist in the literature – a number of basic facts need to be addressed (see, for example, Yeates, 2018, pp. 48–52), it is useful to isolate what later, subsequent to the publication of Wolfart's
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Note that, in contrast to the being-led-into implications of the term "induction", the references to the subject being-thrown-into strongly suggests a sudden, uninhibited, knee-jerk kind of (entirely involuntary) bio-physiological reflex on the part of the
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Duveen & Klickstein (1955), p. 287, note that " was opposed to all new discoveries in science and to political revolution. It was said of him in the latter connexion that he could utter anything he wanted without danger because nobody listened to
3076:(1779, pp. 74–83). They also quote Mesmer's own "characterization" of his principle – namely, that "In the influence of the magnetism, Nature holds out to us a sovereign instrument for securing the health and lengthening the existence of mankind". 3954:", via the operator's 'magnetisation', directly through the particular cranial area supposedly corresponding to that specific phrenological "organ". It was claimed that, in a suitable subject, whenever an operator "excited" a particular phrenological " 3860:"It need not be remarked, how completely the trial illustrates the nature of this popular illusion, which has so wonderfully prevailed, and spread so rapidly; it resembles, in a striking manner, that of Animal Magnetism, which merited the attention of 6412:
Note that both Anon (1911/1912, p. 249) and Lanska & Lanska (2007, p. 313) refer to "more than 20,000 copies", while Eden (1974, p. 15) speaks of 60,000 copies. Regardless of which source is correct, it was certainly a considerable
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Mesmer's brother, Joseph, had been "writing-master to Marie Antoinette, then about thirteen years old", and "the personal physician to the empress Maria Theresa had stood as a witness at Mesmer's wedding in St. Stephen's Cathedral" (Walmsley, 1967,
5708:"; the influence of the imitative tendency being manifested as it is in cases where such fits run through a school, nunnery, factory, or revivalist-meeting, in which a number of suitable subjects are collected together" (Carpenter, 1877, p. 17). 1729:
In late 1782, and eighteen months before the Royal Commission, d'Eslon had (acrimoniously) parted ways with Mesmer; and, despite a brief reconciliation, the relationship was terminated in late 1783. On 28 December 1783, d'Eslon wrote a letter to the
6224:"After defining the issues to be investigated, the commissioners conducted their investigation in a very systematic manner. They employed public observation, self study, case study, and hypothesis testing." (McConkey & Barnier, 1991, p. 78) 3713:
On 10 December 1784, and in support of d'Eslon, one of his associates (and a former student), Louis Caullet de Veaumorel, published a set of Mesmer's class notes that he (Caullet de Veaumorel) had acquired from one of Mesmer's "disloyal" students.
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Finally, they noted (pp. 153–155) that, although charged with investigating d'Eslon's claims and d'Eslon's methods alone, they were satisfied that – offering essentially the same explanation as that in their for-public-consumption report (see
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and pay 10,000 livres a year for the instruction of students, of whom three were to be selected by the government. "The rest of the benefits would be granted when the government's students recognize the utility of the discovery"." (Pattie, 1994,
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The Magnetic and Botanic Family Physician, and Domestic Practice of Natural Medicine: With Illustrations Showing Various Phases of Mesmeric Treatment, including Full and Concise Instruction in Mesmerism, Curative Magnetism, Massage, and Medical
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From his extensive experiments, Braid concluded that all of the observed 'phreno-magnetic’ phenomena were entirely due to " by auricular suggestion, by muscular suggestion, or manipulating either the head, trunk, or extremities" (Braid, 1844,
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of the "medical penumbra" (Brockliss and Jones, 1997) in the (vain) hope of producing an "expansion of the medicable" (such that they would be admitted to conventional medical practice), which were (later) abandoned by their original advocates.
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subject training involved on the part of d'Eslon, they both (independently) concluded that all of the phenomena they had observed during each of their investigations could be directly attributed to "contact", "imagination", and/or "imitation".
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had nothing to do with astrology, which Mesmer repudiated" (Pattie, 1994, p. 1); and, as Gauld (1992) remarks, rather than it being a treatise on astrology, "it is, however, essentially an essay in popular Newtonian physics" (p. 1).
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Four years later, by mid-1843, further experiments that had been conducted by Collyer himself had conclusively proved to his own satisfaction that he was mistaken, and Collyer concluded that there was no such thing as phreno-magnetism at all.
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Crabtree (1993, p. 16) notes that, having seen Mesmer at work, "d'Eslon was convinced . . . of the reality of animal magnetism" and that d'Eslon, "constantly in search of ways to benefit his patients, . . . placed himself under Mesmer's
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Moreover, the efficacy of Mesmer's interventions had never been objectively tested, neither the agency nor the (pre- and post-intervention) veracity of his supposed "cures" had ever been objectively verified, and, finally, in relation to the
7752:"Mesmerism, Odylism, Table-Turning and Spiritualism: I", The Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 1, (May 1877), pp. 12-25; "Mesmerism, Odylism, Table-Turning and Spiritualism: II", No. 2, (June 1877), pp. 161–173. 2592:
In relation to the question of the agency/cause of Mesmer's supposed "cures" – and in the process of constructing the protocols for their investigations into d'Eslon's "animal magnetism" – both Commissions were well aware that "an effect's
2576:, Mesmer had refused to have his therapeutic interventions on a set of entirely "new" patients directly scrutinized, claiming that his already-achieved "cures" were an objective matter of record. Mesmer justified his refusal as follows: 6462:-- both a member of the Paris Faculty of Medicine and the Royal Academy of Sciences -- when leaving Mesmer's training in 1784 (halfway through the course of instruction that he had undertaken at the specific request of his patient, the 2341:) (Bonnefoy, 1784, pp. 87–88); and, although he chose not to comment on d'Eslon's treatments, he stated that, from his own direct observation of Mesmer's treatment of more than 200 patients, he had only seen eight of them display " 930:
Apart from the wider issue of having to evaluate and decide how to deal with those within the medical profession "who saw animal magnetism as an interesting therapeutic resource" (Armando & Belmonte, 2018, p. 13) – namely, the
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observed that, "the nervous paroxysm termed the "crisis" . . . in the hysterical subjects who constituted the great bulk of patients . . . was at once recognized by medical men as only a modified form of what is commonly known as an
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On 7 October 1780 – still associated with Mesmer and still a member of the Paris Faculty of Medicine – d'Eslon made an official request "that an investigation of the authenticity and efficacy of Mesmer's claims and cures be made. The
613:, Mesmer's theories, Mesmer's principles, Mesmer's practices, Mesmer's techniques, Mesmer's apparatus, Mesmer's claims, Mesmer's "cures" or, even, "mesmerism" itself – they were each required to make "a separate and distinct report". 6055:
Mesmer (1781), p. 198; translation at Donaldson (2005), p. 575 -- note that (a) the passages in square brackets come from Donaldson, and (b) Donaldson cites the passage as coming from page 196, rather than 198, of Mesmer's
1810:– which involved the application of steel magnets that had been specifically shaped either to fit particular body contours, or to match the actual dimensions of a specific organ (e.g., the liver) – and, immediately recognizing the " 1184: 7565: 7442:
The Mesmerist's Manual of Phenomena and Practice: With Directions for Applying Mesmerism to the Cure of Diseases, and the Methods of Producing Mesmeric Phenomena: Intended for Domestic Use and the Instruction of Beginners (Second
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Namely: "We can see from the facts that this principle, in accordance with the practical rules I shall set forth, can cure nervous ailments directly and other ailments indirectly" -- Buranelli's (1975, p. 102) translation of
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Franklin, B., Majault, M.J., Le Roy, J.B., Sallin, C.L., Bailly, J.-S., d’Arcet, J., de Bory, G., Guillotin, J.-I., & Lavoisier, A., "Report of The Commissioners charged by the King with the Examination of Animal Magnetism",
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Salas D. & Salas, D. (trans.), "The First Scientific Investigation if the Paranormal Ever Conducted, Commissioned by King Louis XVI. Designed, Conducted, & Written by Benjamin Franklin, Antoine Lavoisier, & Others",
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According to McConkey & Perry (1985, p. 124; 2002, p. 323), Franklin's first encounter with Mesmer was not long after Mesmer's arrival in Paris -- when Franklin accompanied the accomplished composer and celebrated
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The translation is taken from Godwin (1785), pp. 33-35; for other translations see Anon (1911/1912), pp. 80-81; Salas & Salas (1996), pp. 70-71; Franklin, et al. (2002), p. 337); and Donaldson (2014),
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Unaware, at the time, of Collyer's retraction, James Braid made a careful examination of "phreno-hypnotism" in December 1842; and continued his comprehensive experimentation until August 1844 – when he concluded, along with
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to the medical world of the eighteenth century . . . is evident, for example, in his interpretation of disease as a disharmony attributable to a functional disturbance of the nervous fluid . . . concept . . . derived from
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Esdaile, J. (1846a), "Mesmeric Facts, reported by James Esdaile, M.D., Civil Assistant-Surgeon, Hooghly, reprinted from the India Journal of Medical and Physical Science, Vol. 3, No. 6 (June 1845) ", reprinted in
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See Bailly, 1784a, pp. 64-66: translated at Godwin (1785), pp. 106-108; and also at Anon (1911/1912), p. 137; Salas & Salas (1996), p. 83; Franklin, et al. (2002), p. 363; and Donaldson (2014),
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Namely (ibid., pp. 6–7), the direct connections "between Mesmer and Freud" (e.g., see Ellenberger, 1970; Chertok & de Saussure, 1979; and Crabtree, 1993) and, in contrast, "the distance between " (e.g., see Gauld,
2716: 1509:) the "obstacles" that typically divert, disturb, or impede the agent's capacity to attain the optimal treatment outcomes – and, once these "obstacles" had been identified, determine appropriate ways to "clear them away" (" 6696:"The book . . . was compiled under great pressure; there are many mistakes in proper names, and the compiler has omitted to take notice that some of the reports deal with more than one patient" (Podmore, 1909, p. 9). 5179:"For Mesmer . . . animal magnetism was a logically sound system fitting well within, and contradicting none of, the empirical natural philosophical discourses that prevailed at this time" (Davies Wilson, 2014, p. 1). 6028: 3398:
Given their inability to detect any (substantial) 'magnetism' – and, from their observations that the "effects" (that were attributed by d'Eslon to the supposed 'magnetism' and the supposed 'fluid') were only manifested
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physician, Michel-Joseph Majault (1714–1790), and the Professor (of physiology and pathology) Charles Louis Sallin – and, at the request of those four physicians, five scientists from the Royal Academy of Sciences – the
2749:] effects of the fluid upon the animal frame, excluding from these effects all the illusions which might mix with them, and assuring themselves that they could proceed from no other cause than the animal magnetism." 1313:
to "take the waters"; and he was enjoying an extended stay at Spa when the reports of the two Royal Commissions were released. Mesmer lived for another 31 years after the Royal Commissions. He died at the age of 80, in
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of his treatment procedures (i.e., investigate d'Eslon's actual practices, rather than just the veracity (or not) of his theoretical claims, and that alone), and the alleged curative effects of his standard, extended
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How then can we decide upon the action of an agent, whose existence is contested, from the treatment of diseases; when the effect of medicines is doubtful, whose existence is not at all problematical? – Bailly (1784a,
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d'Eslon, C. (1782), Lettre de M. d'Eslon, docteur-régent de la Faculté de Mèdicine de Paris, Premiere Mèdicine ordinaire de Monseigneur le Comte d'Artois, &c. à M. Philip, Doyen en Charge de la mème Faculté, The
4024:, and an associate of Charcot at the Salpêtrière hospital – claimed that he had discovered a system of "zones" on the surface of the body, the stimulation of which induced (or terminated) the hypnotic state; namely: 1745:
Given that many of those who had privately paid Mesmer for the details of "the secret" were greatly dissatisfied, and had " accused of having enunciated a theory which was merely a collection of obscure principles"
3765:"his is the first scientific investigation that we know of into what would today be considered a paranormal or pseudoscientific claim. . . . the control of intervening variables and the testing of specific claims, 1089: 818: 2760:
In support of its decision, the "Franklin Commission" produced a cogent, extended argument, consistent with the medical knowledge of the day, that is equally relevant to similar investigations in the present day:
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The release of the reports generated a proliferation of publications, many of which were simply addressing issues relating to either "mesmerism" or "animal magnetism" in general – such as, for instance, those of
1498:(a) how to rouse (and maintain) this agent, by every possible means – and acquire the knowledge of how, so-roused, it might be therapeutically harnessed in the most efficacious fashion (Mesmer, 1799, p. 48); 4883: 3745:
In his own responses to the Commissions' Reports, Mesmer stressed that – simply because he had not been involved in any of their investigations – the Commissioners' conclusions had nothing whatsoever to do with
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Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and other Commissioners, charged by the King of France, with the Examination of the Animal Magnetism, as now practised at Paris: Translated from the French with an Historical
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The translation is from Salas & Salas (1996), p. 70 (and Franklin, et al. 2002, p. 336); other translations at Godwin (1785), pp. 30-31, Anon (1911/1912), p. 80, and Donaldson (2014),
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Translation taken from Godwin (1785), p. 23: other translations at Anon (1911/1912), p. 79; at Salas & Salas (1996), p. 69; at Franklin, 2002, p. 333; and Donaldson (2014), p. 41.
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used "mesmerism" to produce the condition under which he conducted completely pain-free surgery is still being repeated in many of the modern accounts of the history of mesmerism, anaesthesia, and hypnotism.
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Pitres further claimed that, despite the location of the specific "zones" differing from individual to individual, the location of the relevant "zones" remained constant for each individual: viz., they had a
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Janik & Waclawik (2016), Zabell (2016), Donaldson (2017), and Rosen et al. (2019) – have also identified the commission's examination as a previously unrecognized "classic" example of a controlled trial.
3215:... having demonstrated by decisive experiments, that the imagination without the magnetism produces convulsions, and that the magnetism, without the imagination produces nothing; concluded with an [ 9294:
Pitres, A., Leçons Cliniques sur l'Hystérie et l'Hypnotisme: Faites à l'Hôpital Saint-André de Bordeaux: Tome 2 (Ouvrage précédé D'une Lettre-Préface de M. le Professeur J.-M. Charcot), Octave Doin (Paris),
2466:"When we call this principle magnetic fluid, vital fluid, we are using a figurative expression. We know that something emanates from the magnetizer: this something is not a solid, and we call it a fluid." – 1869: 7860:
Mysteries of the Vital Element in Connexion with Dreams, Somnambulism, Trance, Vital Photography, Faith and Will, Anæsthesia, Nervous Congestion and Creative Function; Modern Spiritualism Explained (Second
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Translation taken from Godwin (1785), p. 38; other translations at: Anon (1911/1912), p. 81; Salas & Salas (1996), p. 71; Franklin, et al. (2002), pp. 338-339; and Donaldson (2014),
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of "irritable" organs, muscles, nerves, etc. (i.e., physiological aspects capable of being excited into action by external "irritation") were excited by the application of an external "irritating stimulus".
832:"The Minister . . . began by saying that the King, informed of Mesmer's dislike of being investigated by commissioners, wished to excuse him from that formality and would grant him a life annuity of 20,000 8105:
at pp/18-38, a translation of Lavoisier (1865); at pp. 39–67, a translation of Bailly (1784a); at pp. 68–76, a translation of Bailly (1800); and at pp. 77–83, a translation of Bailly (1784b)
5262:(see "Mesmer and Gassner" at Crabtree, 1993, pp. 8-10). And it is to this activity of Mesmer's that Gauld (1992, p. 3) attributes the decision to admit Mesmer to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 2963:] has made to them respecting the interior construction of the , they cannot infer any physical agent, capable of contributing to the imputed effects of the magnetism." – "Franklin" Report (p. 5.) 1598: 1162: 6273:
Translation taken from Godwin (1785), pp. 24-25: other translations at: Anon (1911/1912), p. 79; Salas & Salas (1996), p. 69, and at Franklin, 2002, p. 334; and Donaldson (2014),
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Further, as Kihlstrom (2002) observed, even though the "Franklin Commission" had accepted that "Mesmer's cures were genuine", and that "he was able to succeed where conventional approaches had failed",
9692:('Memerism: or The System of Interactions, Theory and Application of Animal Magnetism as General Medicine for the Preservation of Man by Dr. Friedrich Anton Mesmer'), Berlin: Nikolaischen Buchhandlung. 7368:
Atkinson, H.G. , "On Mesmero-Phrenology, and the Function of the Cerebellum: Being a Paper Read at the Second Meeting of the Phrenological Association, July the 4th, 1843; Dr. Elliotson in the Chair",
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Bailly (1800): translations at Bailly and Others (1963); at Bailly, et al. (2002); and at Donaldson (2014), pp. 68-76. See also, Crabtree (1993), pp. 92-94, Pattie (1994), pp. 154-155.
1205:– and, as Pattie remarks (1994, p. 156), "the impression given by report is that the commissioners were busy practitioners who wanted to devote no more time to the project than was necessary". 1195: 1306:(i.e., Mesmer, 1781) – interspersed with time spent in various parts of France, a complete absence from France (1792–1798), a return to France in 1798, and his final departure from France in 1802. 7968:
d'Eslon, C. (trans. by D. Chval, ed. and abridged by R.E. Shor) (1963), "Observations on the Two Reports of the Commissioners Named by the King to Investigate Animal Magnetism", pp. 8-20, in
4587:"He had signed, he declared, the proposals of two weeks ago through weakness and respect for the opinions of others, but he should never have allowed himself to do so" (Pattie, 1994, p. 111). 2733:"misleading" issue of whether there were real "cures" of "real" diseases from d'Eslon's therapeutic interventions, and whether any such "cures" were entirely the "effects" of d'Eslon's treatment, 2337:
Jean-Baptiste Bonnefoy (1756–1789), a member of the Royal College of Surgeons at Lyon, and an associate of Mesmer, rejected the notion that Animal Magnetism was "the art of arousing convulsions" (
3750:(metaphorical) "animal magnetism"; and, because their conclusions only applied to d'Eslon's theories and practices, any responses to those conclusions were entirely the concern of d'Eslon alone. 966:
of those with (supposedly) 'real' ailments, the question of whether the pre-intervention conditions of each case were of "organic" or "psychogenic" origins had never been objectively determined.
8269:('Impartial Reflections on Animal Magnetism made after the publication of the Report of the Commissioners charged by the King with the Examination of this Discovery'), Geneva: Barthélemy Chirol. 4144:, over its fifteen years of existence (i.e., March 1843 to January 1856), the entirely mistaken, generally held, and (at the time) widely published view that (the otherwise highly significant) 3116:
In an extended footnote to the last paragraph of their principal report, the Commissioners justified their investigative approach, and the appropriateness of their conclusions, in some detail.
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and participating in the Paris-centred investigations – although the commission's Report does note that several experiments were conducted at Franklin's Passy residence in Franklin's presence.
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Huneman, Phillippe (2008), "Montpellier Vitalism and the Emergence of Alienism in France (1750–1800): The Case of the Passions", Science in Context", Vol. 21, No. 4, (2008), 615-647.
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The experience of the efficacy of remedies is always therefore attended with some uncertainty; in the case of the magnetism the uncertainty has this addition, the uncertainty of its existence.
2487:(i.e., "substantivised") the magnetic/fluidic metaphors of Mesmer – firmly believed that they were channeling a substantial "fluidium" and were manipulating a particular, substantial "force". 4098:
Another vestige of phreno-magnetism that demanded that Freud position himself at the patient's head was Freud's application of the "head pressure" technique that he had, in person, observed
5042: 4868:"Dr. Franklin, though the weakness of his health hindered him from coming to Paris, and assisting at the experiments which were there made, was magnetised by M. at his own house at Passy." 3657:
Immediately following the release of the reports of the two Commissions, the Paris Faculty of Medicine "pressure its own members to renounce animal magnetism" (Crabtree, 1993, p. 32).
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Elliotson, J. (1847c). "Dr. Esdaile's First Monthly Report of the Calcutta Mesmeric Hospital, and his Experiments with Ether used with the same view as Mesmerism in Surgical Operations",
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Bailly, J.-S., Franklin, B., de Bory, G., Lavoisier, A., Majault, M.J., Sallin, C.L., d’Arcet, J., Guillotin, J.-I., & Le Roy, J.B., "Secret Report on Mesmerism or Animal Magnetism",
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In addition to his specific criticisms of the reports of the two Royal Commissions – and to emphasize the significance of the Royal Commissions' refusal to investigate either the alleged
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It is important to note that, despite the contemporary and modern salience given to Benjamin Franklin – who, as the most eminent of the commission's eleven members, was recognized as its
3637:, himself a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences – who (at Devillers, 1784, pp. 165–166) compared the "cures" of Mesmer, with those supposed to have been effected at the tomb of 2648:
medicine, theories of treatment, like theories of disease, had to conform to what was known about anatomy and physiology. Then, as now, this scientific basis distinguished medicine from
1867: 7580:
Neurypnology or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism Illustrated by Numerous Cases of its Successful Application in the Relief and Cure of Disease
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Crabtree's translation (1993, at p. 32), of Thomas d'Onglée (1785), p. 8: "Aucun Docteur ne se déclarera partisan du Magnétisme animal, ni par ses écrits, ni par sa pratique,
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A Practical Manual of Animal Magnetism; Containing an Exposition of the Methods Employed in Producing the Magnetic Phenomena; with its Application to the Treatment and Cure of Diseases
9072:('Historical Summary of the facts relating to animal magnetism until April 1781. By Monsieur Mesmer, Doctor of Medicine of the Faculty of Vienna. Book translated from German'), London. 6809: 5754:
The (standard at the time) term "animal economy" is derived from the original meaning of economy, "the management of a household", and is best understood by the definition supplied by
2318:", citing the cases of two of his patients, who were epileptic and "frequently had seizures at home", who never had a single "attack" during their treatment at his clinic (p. 23). 1765:
from the Paris Faculty of Medicine – when "d’Eslon, through influential friends, and tact, and other favourable circumstances, procured establishment to investigate animal magnetism
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Mesmerismus: Oder System der Wechselwirkungen, Theorie und Anwendung des thierischen Magnetismus als die allgemeine heilkunde zur Erhaltung des Menschen von Dr. Friedrich Anton Mesmer
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and so was an important source of the physician's professional authority. While Mesmer wanted approval for his technique, the academy wanted verification of his theory." (p. 414)
4405:"The commissioners' reports of 1784 were based upon d'Eslon's clinic and patients and not Mesmer's; thus, mesmerism was studied without studying Mesmer." (Gravitz, 1994, p. 50.) 3649:(1784) – who provided details of beliefs similar to those of Mesmer previously held by the ancient Greeks, Persians, and Romans – strongly supported the findings of the Commissions. 991:
whenever it was considered to be "demonically inspired" (as distinct from those cases in which it was considered to be "divinely inspired" (Spanos and Gottlieb, 1979, p. 538)).
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See Bailly (1784a); translated at Godwin (1785), Anon (1911/1912), pp. 79-84, 133-137, Salas & Salas (1996), Franklin, et al. (2002), and (Donaldson (2014), pp. 39-67.
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For the third edition see Caullet de Veaumorel (1785b); and for an English translation of that version, see Caullet de Veaumorel (1785c). Also, see Pattie (1994), pp. 212-215.
5493:("to that extent") plausibility", a state of affairs in which later empirical experience shows that the "plausibility" involved is far deeper than simply superficial. For more on " 5780:
of the functions and movements which sustain life in animals, the perfect, universal and constant exercise of which, performed with ease and alacrity, is the flourishing state of
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Gassner's (supposedly) supernatural therapeutic interventions had been debunked by Mesmer, himself, in 1775, when he visited Gassner, and observed him in action, at the behest of
2134:(a) Only "the most sensitive subjects" – i.e., who were "sensitive" either as a consequence of "their constitution" or of "their illness" – displayed these "convulsive movements". 8099:
The Reports of the Royal Commission of 1784 on Mesmer's System of Animal Magnetism and Other Contemporary Documents: New English Translations and an Introduction by IML Donaldson
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Psychography, or, The Embodiment of Thought: With an Analysis of Phreno-Magnetism, “Neurology”, and Mental Hallucination, Including Rules to Govern and Produce the Magnetic State
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Mesmer specifically stressed the primary importance of the patients' hand-holding as a factor in the "augmentation" of the force/quality of the power of the "animal magnetism".
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Bersani, F. (2011), "Mesmerism: From an Ambiguous Physical and Medical Canon to Psychology", pp. 59-72 in A. Calanchi, G. Castellani, G. Morisco, and G. Turchetti (eds.),
725:") concentration upon "the transformations of animal magnetism after 1820 hypnotism", and, especially, upon "the elements of continuity and analogy between mesmerism [ 1356:(as they were understood at the time) – of "an explanatory model to represent the way that healers had been healing people for thousands of years" (Yeates, 2018, p. 48). 5140:
For more on Von Haller's theories, see: von Haller (1753a, 1753b); von Haller (1755), and English translation of von Haller (1753a, 1753b); Temkin (1936); and Steinke (2005).
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Rosen (1959, p. 8) also notes that, "in fact, this whole sequence of events , set a kind of pattern which was to be repeated at intervals during the succeeding decades".
2420: 5850:
According to Dingwall (1967, p. 6), Mesmer's earlier conceptualization of "animal gravity" was, later, replaced by his more sophisticated concept of "animal magnetism".
817:, on the grounds that it had been made under duress, and a new "interview" was conducted, involving Mesmer, d'Eslon, the unidentified bureaucrat, and the Minister of State, 7963:(Supplement to the two Reports of MM. the Commissioners of the Academy & of the Faculty of Medicine, & of the Royal Society of Medicine'), The Hague: Chez Gueffier. 6242:
Godwin, the translator, in a footnote (p. 23) notes that, "the diameter of this box is usually large enough to admit of fifty persons landing round its circumference."
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Précis historique des faits relatifs au magnétisme animal jusques en avril 1781. Par M. Mesmer, Docteur en Médecine de la Faculté´ de Vienne. Ouvrage traduit de l’Allemand
7631: 7398:('Exposition of the experiments that were carried out to examine Animal Magenetism: Read at the Academy of Sciences . . . on the 4th September 1784'), Paris: Chez Moutard. 1973:– i.e., "the first electric condenser in history" (Morabito, 2019, p. 90) – which was "supposed by analogy to 'store' animal magnetism" (Forrest, 1999, p. 20). 5289:
On reconnoîtra par les faits, d'après les règles pratiques que j'établirai, que ce principe peut guérir immédiatement les maladies des nerfs, & médiatement les autres
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Not only did they endorse the Administration's decision to conduct an Inquiry, but they also "embraced the honour its choice" of their own appointment as Commissioners.
2855:(b) subsequent to Mesmer's intervention, all of those who had been supposedly "cured" by Mesmer had been genuinely "cured" of their "real" pre-intervention disorders; and 1868: 601:
Both sets of Commissioners were specifically charged with investigating the claims made by Charles d’Eslon for the existence of a substantial (rather than metaphorical) "
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In 2002, McConkey and Perry (p. 329) observed that "the Franklin Commission's scientific findings on the nature of animal magnetism remain intact and unchallenged".
4472:" -- which, given that the (contemporary) translator(s), most likely, had some direct understanding of d'Eslon's techniques, strongly suggests that d'Eslon's degree of " 1085: 9421:
Schneck, J.M. (1959), "The History of Electrotherapy and its Correlation with Mesmer's Animal Magnetism", Vol. 116, No. 5, (November 1959), pp. 463–464.
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Crabtree, A. (2008), "The Transition to Secular Psychotherapy: Hypnosis and the Alternate-Consciousness Paradigm", pp. 555–586 in E. Wallace & J. Gach. (eds),
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In 1972, Ronald Shor concluded (1972, p. 20) that, overall, the patients' "agitated reactions" were probably due to three factors: (i) "expectations deriving from
7954:('Observations on the two Reports of MM. the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, for the examination of Animal Magnetism'), Philadelphia, and Paris: Chez Clousier. 7277:
Note that "many pamphlets on magnetism bear false imprints; they purport to have been printed in London, The Hague, Philadelphia, Peking, etc. In this way they evaded
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Lanska, D.J. (2019), "The Assessment of Perkins' Patent Metallic 'Tractors': Abandonment of an 18th-century Therapeutic Fad following Trials using Sham Instruments",
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The majority of diseases have their seat in the interior part of our frame. The collective experience of a great number of centuries has made us acquainted with the
807: 7715:('An Academic History of Animal Magnetism accompanied by Notes and Critical Remarks on all Observations and Experiments made to date'), Paris: Chez J.-B. Baillière. 7504:
Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities: ACUME 2, Volume 7: The Case and the Canon: Anomalies, Discontinuities, Metaphors between Science and Literature
4490:", Poissonnier, et al. p. 15) seems to indicate that "d'Eslon used actual contact and pressure of the hands more than Mesmer did" (Pattie, 1994, p. 156). 2815:
In addition to reflecting the position of the "Franklin Commission" in these matters, the "Society Commission" also noted that there were other equally significant
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beings (i.e., "living" beings: humans, animals, plants, etc.), in virtue of being alive, possessed an invisible, natural "magnetic" or "gravitational force" – thus
8403: 7360:
Armando, D. & Belhoste, B. (trans. J. Johnson) (2018), "Mesmerism Between the End of the Old Regime and the Revolution: Social Dynamics and Political Issues",
1130:, had little involvement in any of the commission's investigations. In particular, this was because his own ill-health prevented him from leaving his residence in 6805: 7518:
Best, M., Neuhauser, D., and Slavin, L. (2003), "Evaluating Mesmerism, Paris, 1784: The Controversy over the Blinded Placebo Controlled Trials has not Stopped",
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If the commission was not the first, it was, at least, one of the very earliest examples of a controlled trial; and, in particular, one that included the use of
3729:"were a distorted account of his lectures", according to Pattie (1994, p. 213), "they accurate" and, moreover, "they agree with later writings of Mesmer". 2137:(b) In the majority of cases, "convulsive movements" were only displayed after extended exposure to "magnetic procedures that involved direct physical contact" ( 1754:, 1888, p. 13), it seems that d'Eslon's version was little better. Greatly confused by d'Eslon's version of "the secret", d'Eslon's student and associate, 9767:
Zanetti, F. (trans. J. Johnson) (2018), "The Setbacks and Counterpoints of Mesmerism: Knowledge and Personalities on the Margins at the End of the Old Regime",
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wealthy patrons . . . Following publication of the Report, Mesmer was a focus of public scorn and ridicule . . . – McConkey & Barnier (1991, pp. 77-78)
2155:– always produced a greater number of "convulsive movements", of greater magnitude, in a greater number of patients, with less treatment, and in a shorter time. 6431:
More recent translations at Anon (1911/1912), pp. 79-84, 133-137; Salas & Salas (1996); Franklin, et al. (2002); and Donaldson (2014), pp. 39-67.
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Spanos, N.P. & Gottlieb, J. (1979), "Demonic Possession, Mesmerism, and Hysteria: A Social Psychological Perspective on their Historical Interrelations",
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summary at Pattie (1994), pp. 13–27; for an English translation of a modern (1971) French version of the original Latin, see Bloch (1980), pp. 1–22.
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When they visited d’Eslon's establishment, the Commissioners discovered that, not only did d’Eslon's standard therapeutics involve (his version of) Mesmer's "
9448:('Doubts of a Man from the Provinces, Proposed to MM. the Medical Commissioners Charged by the King with the Examination of Animal Magnetism'), Lyon: Prault. 6116:
And, according to Pattie (1994, p. 147), it was "in their quest of momentary effects the commissioners decided to submit themselves to magnetization."
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The persons who superintend the process, have each of them an iron rod in his hand, from ten to twelve inches in length." – "Franklin" Report (pp. 3-4.)
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is placed in one corner of the apartment, and different airs are played with various degrees of rapidity; vocal music is sometimes added to the instrumental.
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Given Mesmer's regular (analogical) references throughout his works to the efficient grinding activities of smoothly functioning mills – speaking of how the
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Réflexions Impartiales sur le Magnétisme Animal, Faites après la publication du Rapport des Commissaires, chargés par le Roi de l’Examen de cette Découverte
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d’Eslon, a one-time patient, pupil, and associate of Mesmer, published a work on Mesmer's version of animal magnetism (while still associated with Mesmer),
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Shor, R.E. (1972), "The Fundamental Problem in Hypnosis Research as Viewed from Historic Perspectives", pp. 14–40 in E. Fromm & R.E. Shor (eds.),
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Physician or Medicine heals the sick", and because of that, it was (in Mesmer's own words), "a mistake to believe that this kind of proof is irrefutable".
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Animal Magnetism: History of its Origin, Progress, and Present State: Its Principles and Secrets Displayed, as delivered by the late Dr. Demainauduc, etc.
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The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (Vol.I (1886-1899): The Pre-Psycho-Analytic Publications and Unpublished Drafts)
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Animal Magnetism and the Life Energy: the Natural Curative Force in Everyone: The Definitive Study of the Astounding Discoveries of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer
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subjects, and their subjects immediately displaying responses appropriate to the characteristics of each phrenological zone" (Yeates, 2018, p. 56) .
3209:, to this fluid which is said to circulate in the body and to communicate itself from one individual to another" were "touch, imagination, imitation": 1734:, which not only described the difficulties he had experienced with Mesmer, but also announced that he was opening his own (entirely independent) clinic. 1616:
of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and the one-time personal physician to the King's brother, Charles Philippe, Comte d’Artois – who, later (following the
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Finger, S. & Gallo, D.A. (2004), "The Music of Madness: Franklin's Armonica and the Vulnerable Nervous System", pp. 207–235 in Rose, F.C. (ed),
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Histoire Académique du Magnétisme Animal accompagnée de Notes et de Remarques Critiques sur toutes les Observations et Expériences faites jusqu'a ce Jour
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Salas & Salas (1996), p. 71; Franklin, et al., 2002, p. 338; the Commissioners were quoting statements from Mesmer (1781), pp. 35, 37.
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Noting that, in his view, "a longer use of this agent will make its real action and degree of usefulness to be better understood", de Jussieu concluded:
3097: 2530:– the distinction being "that, while there might be natural explanations for 'lower' phenomena, 'higher' phenomena could only be explained in terms of a 2036:
degree of crisis, no matter how slight or transient, would always be found if it was looked for carefully enough." — (Anthony Campbell, 1988, p. 36)
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Esdaile, J, (1850), "Second half-yearly Report of the Calcutta Mesmeric Hospital. From 1st March to 1st September, 1849; with a Letter published in the
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not only studied and wrote about "hypnosis" (e.g., Freud, 1891, and 1966), but he also actively used "hypnosis" in his clinical practice for some time.
3085: 581:, which not only applied "sham" and "genuine" procedures to patients with "sham" and "genuine" disorders, but, significantly, was the first to use the " 6475:
Winter (1801), pp. 11-12: The "lectures" in question were delivered by Jean-Bonnoit de Mainauduc (1750–1797), a former student of Charles d'Eslon.
2172:(g) The majority of those who displayed "convulsive movements" only did so after an extended exposure to group treatment at the one treatment location. 9729:, Ph.D. Dissertation, School of History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, January 2013. 9172:
Morabito, Carmela, "Rethinking Mesmerism and its Dissemination in the 19th Century: at the Intersection between Philosophy, Medicine and Psychology",
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Of the Imagination, as a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body; Exemplified by Fictitious Tractors, and Epidemical Convulsions (Second Edition)
8096: 7475:('Considerations on Animal Magnetism, or, on the Theory of the World and Organized Beings, according to the principles of M. Mesmer'), The Hague: n.p. 5331:
d'Eslon (1780), pp. 40-89; see Pattie (1994), pp. 115-116 for brief summary of the disorders which d'Eslon reported that Mesmer had treated.
2852:(a) prior to Mesmer's intervention, all of those who had been supposedly "cured" by Mesmer had, indeed, been suffering from a "real" medical disorder, 855:
So, there were many reasons for the 1784 Commission to satisfy the (French) interests of the King, rather than the (Austrian) interests of his queen.
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Rosen, G.M., Lilienfeld, S.O. & Glasgow, R.E. (2019), "Psychiatry's stance towards scientifically implausible therapies: Are we losing ground?",
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The inaccurate comments by Harte reflect the typical misrepresentation of the Committee's investigations into D'Eslon as being concerned with Mesmer:
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See: Fuller, 1982; Darnton, 1968, esp. pp. 106–125; Armando, 2018; Armando & Belhoste, 2018; Belhoste, 2018; Rance, 2018; and Zanetti, 2018.
3670:"No Doctor may declare himself a partisan of animal magnetism, through writings or through practice, under penalty of being removed from the role of 448: 9791: 9343:
Ridgway, E.S. (1993), "John Elliotson (1791-1868): A Bitter Enemy of Legitimate Medicine? Part I: Earlier Years and the Introduction to Mesmerism",
9076:
Mesmer, F.A. (n.d.), "Catéchism du Magnétisme Animal" ('Catechism on Animal Magnetism'), reprinted at pp. 113–120, Jean-Jacques Paulet (1784),
8048:
Devereaux, P.J., Bhandari, M., Montori, V.M., Manns, B.J., Ghali, W.A. and Guyatt, G.H., 2002. "Double Blind, You are the Weakest Link — Goodbye!",
2016:"One feature of Mesmer's methods . . . was the "mesmeric crisis". Some patients, especially those suffering from more serious symptoms, experienced 878:
race, intellect, etc., was an important influence on many of the moves (and 'movers') within French society towards democracy and greater equality.
6264:, he had constructed of one of the first-ever electroscopes (often described as a "floating repulsion electrometer": Hackmann (1998), p. 220). 2797:
sufficiently powerful to maintain the vital principle in spite of the improper regimen, and to triumph at once over the distemper and the remedy.
2235:" upon the "animal economy" of an individual observer (regardless of whether the observer in question was healthy or not), and, on, a larger scale, 6814: 4652:
above needing proof through experimentation, resorting to the endorsement of public approval when he could not receive that of the Establishment."
4554:") in support of the modern understandings of "placebo", rather than, that is, in examining the historical significance of one of the first-ever " 2126:) were "viewed as evidence of the particular agent to whom they are attributed" – the "Society" Commissioners' Report, in its discussion of the " 1758:, is said to have remarked that those to whom d'Eslon had revealed "the secret" doubted it even more than those to whom it had not been revealed. 1494:" (p. 7, Mesmer's emphasis) – the primary focus of his enterprise had become the threefold quest for the acquisition of an understanding of: 6200:" at Lavoisier (1865, pp. 511-513); also, see the English translation ("Lavoisier's Plan of Experiments") at Donaldson (2017, pp. 167). 3249:
A second (brief) report – which had been presented privately to the King on 11 August 1784, but not made public until 1800 (i.e., in the time of
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It was composed of five eminent physicians from the Royal Society of Medicine – the physician and one of the first members of the Royal Society,
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factors, concomitant with, but unassociated with, the treatment delivered, in relation to the circumstances of the patients themselves; namely,
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Rather than being the "inventor" of "a technique", as some (mis)represent the circumstances, it is clear that Mesmer's significance was in his "
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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
5963:("sleep-waking": see Elliotson, 1835, pp. 627-630; Herfner, 1844, pp. 81-83, etc.)." -- Yeates also notes that "though the defining " 5959:, loss of sense of identity, suggestibility, heightened memory, deadening of the senses, insensibility to pain, rapport with the operator, and 2276: 2252: 8584:: An Historical Encyclopedia, London: The Science Museum; Washington, DC: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1998. 6764:"I have changed absolutely nothing to these words, so as not to be accused of having wanted to introduce something foreign to his Doctrine" (" 6521:
Poissonnier, Caille, Mauduyt de La Varenne & Andry (1784): summary at Crabtree (1993), p. 28, and at Pattie (1994), pp. 156-158.
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The dissertation's title page identifies Mesmer as "Antonii Mesmer, Marisbergensis Acron. Suev., A.A.L.L. & Phil. Doct." ('a Swabian from
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Noting that the "greater" and "more extraordinary" a discovery, the more difficult it was to settle on suitable proof, they reported that, as
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Rapport des commissaires de la Société royale de médecine nommés par le Roi pour fair l’examen du magnétisme animal, Imprimé par ordre du Roi
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Mesmer's Aphorisms and Instructions, by M. Caullet de Veaumorel, Physician to the Household of Monsieur, His Most Christian Majesty's Brother
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As Yeates (2018, p. 61) observes, " gifts in a child's Xmas stocking does not support claims for the supposed existence of Santa Claus".
5636:, connected with each other by cords passed round their bodies, and by a second chain, formed by joining hands" (emphasis added to original). 3508: 8540: 3846:
The "classic" structure of the investigations undertaken by the "Franklin" Commission inspired – among many others over the ensuing years –
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If it have this power of resisting the action of medicine, by a still stronger reason it must have the power of operating without medicine.
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Jensen, M.B, Janik, E.L., and Waclawik, A. (2016), "The Early Use of Blinding in Therapeutic Clinical Research of Neurological Disorders",
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Gallo, David A. & Finger, Stanley, (2000), "The Power of a Musical Instrument: Franklin, the Mozarts, Mesmer, and the Glass Armonica",
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Braid, J. (1844), "Experimental Inquiry, to Determine whether Hypnotic and Mesmeric Manifestations can be Adduced in Proof of Phrenology",
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In the last section of its Report, the "Franklin" Commission, in addition to its remarks on the impact of the phenomena associated with a "
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Temkin, O. (1936), "A Dissertation on the Sensible and Irritable Parts of Animals, by Albrecht von Haller (English Translation of 1755)",
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Mémoire de F. A. Mesmer, Docteur en Médecine, sur ses Découvertes" ('Dissertation by F.A. Mesmer, Doctor of Medicine, on his Discoveries')
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Supplément aux deux Rapports de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie & de la Faculté de Médecine, & de la Société Royale de Médecine
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Je n’ai absolument rien changé à ces dictées, asin de ne pas être accusé d’y avoir voulu introduire quelque chose d’étranger à sa Doctrine
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and its contents, see, for instance, Gauld (1992), pp. 86–94; Crabtree (1993), pp. 114–116; and Pattie (1994), pp. 248–270.
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The commission's procedures were, obviously, " to give unequivocal answers to clearly defined hypotheses" (Donaldson, 2017, p. 166):
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In the mean time it must be confessed that this salutary or pernicious influence, real as it is, may frequently escape common observation.
2608:(2) The Commissioner's took the entirely reasonable and non-controversial step of accepting the existence of Mesmer's "cured patients" as 9806: 8374:
An Account of the Effects of Electricity in Paralytic Cases. In a Letter to John Pringle, M.D. F.R.S. from Benjamin Franklin, Esq; F.R.S.
8170:(Includes (at pp. 498–508), "Mesmeric Facts, reported by James Esdaile, M.D., Civil Assistant-Surgeon, Hooghly", reprinted from the 4464:
Note that the contemporary English translation (Godwin, 1785, passim), consistently rendered the "Franklin Commission's" technical term "
1997:) and, as well, also significantly remarking (loc. cit.) that, "In general, I only use these little devices when I am forced to do so" ( 1288: 1189: 8088:
Donaldson, I.M.L. (2017), "Antoine de Lavoisier's Role in Designing a Single-Blind Trial to Assess whether ‘Animal Magnetism’ Exists",
803: 792: 517: 7561:('A Reasoned Analysis of the Reports of the Commissioners appointed by the King to examine Animal Magnetism'), Lyon and Paris: Prault. 6215:
he conducted in Manchester on 22 April 1844; see: Anon (1844); Bramwell (1903), pp. 144-149; and Yeates (2013), pp. 741-743.
3802:) blindfolds – which were used from time to time on both the experimenters and their experimental subjects – as well as testing both " 2993:(2) "(given claims that "animal magnetism" affected 'the infirm' differently from 'the healthy'), they tested d’Eslon's procedures on 2755: 1183:
professor, one of the original directors of the Royal Society, and committed advocate of the therapeutic applications of electricity,
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Collyer, R.H. (1871), "Animal Magnetism, Mesmerism, or Nervous Congestion, and Other Allied Topics", pp. 48-56 in R.H. Collyer,
5259: 609:", "le fluide magnétique". Further, having completed their investigations into the claims of d'Eslon – that is, they did not examine 9357:
Ridgway, E.S. , "John Elliotson (1791-1868): A Bitter Enemy of Legitimate Medicine? Part II: The Mesmeric Scandal and Later Years",
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Esdaile, J. (1853), "The Protest and Petition of James Esdaile, M.D., Surgeon H.E.I.C.S., to the Members of the American Congress",
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Donaldson, I.M.L. (2005), "Mesmer's 1780 Proposal for a Controlled Trial to Test his Method of Treatment Using 'Animal Magnetism'",
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Exposé des experiences qui ont éte faites pour l'examen du magnetisme animal: lu à l'Académie des Sciences . . . le 4 Septembre 1784
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See, for example, Brown (1933); Gauld (1992), pp. 6-7; Crabtree (1993), pp. 16-18; and Pattie (1994), pp. 86, 94-116.
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Due, to a large extent, to the (mistaken) enthusiastic promotion of Esdaile's (otherwise) valuable work in India as "mesmerism" by
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perfectly candid. A fair opportunity was offered to discover whether the metallick Tractors possessed any efficacy superior to the
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From their investigations both Commissions concluded (a) that there was no evidence of any kind to support d'Eslon's claim for the
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The reason that similar professional ostracism was not taken against Mesmer was that Mesmer was not, and had never been, either a
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substantial physical way – for the simple reason that, as the two sets of Commissioners each noted in their independent reports, "
2399:, "animal gravity" – and the therapeutic interventions of each were directed at manipulating the ebb and flow of their subject's " 6730: 5735:(ii) "a probable aftereffect of anxiety release after direct symptom suppression" (Shor drew particular attention to the case of 3417: 1806:
It is significant that Mesmer, initially impressed by the therapeutic enterprises of the Jesuit astronomer, explorer, and healer
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in 1775, and, despite his M.D. qualification, there is no record of Mesmer ever having been accepted as a member of any medical "
1107:(1743-1794), and the physicist (and expert on things electrical), Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, the Director of the Academy of Sciences. 1012: 475: 8895: 7345:
includes (at pp. 79–84, 133–137) a translation of Bailly (1784a), and (at pp. 199–201) a translation of Bailly (1800)
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This is Godwin's (1785, p. 21) translation of Bailly (1784a, p. 3), which is directly quoting Mesmer's (1779, p.vi), "
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For an historical account of changes in the understanding of "the imagination" over the centuries, see Fischer-Homberger (1979).
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Considérations sur le Magnétisme Animal, ou, sur la Théorie du Monde et des êtres organisés, d'après les principes de M. Mesmer
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Armando, D. (trans. J. Johnson) (2018), " Magnetic Crises, Political Convulsions: The Mesmerists in the Constituent Assembly",
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Pattie (1994, p. 131) estimated that there were something like 60 of these patients who left Mesmer and went with d'Eslon.
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As Franklin (2021) records, Benjamin Franklin was a long-term (intermittent) sufferer from the extremely painful conditions of
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This statement by Mesmer is directly supported by the observation of Binet and Féré (1888, p. 9) that "the patients were
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Pattie (1994) remarks that, as a consequence of this relationship, Mesmer had "permitted to observe his work for four years".
3125: 2231:. etc.), the immediate and long-term physiological and psychological consequences of observing another individual manifest a " 9895: 9719: 9705: 9601: 9509: 9468: 9288: 9248: 8589: 8483: 8469: 8446: 8354: 8323: 8282: 8204: 7920: 7906: 7834: 7705: 7663: 7649: 7512: 4152:
It is clear, however, that – having noticed a vague, and superficial similarity between Esdaile's (Islamic/exorcism derived)
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In relation to the findings of both Commissions – viz., that there was no evidence for d'Eslon's claims, and that d'Eslon's
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For Lavoisier's involvement with the investigations in general, see Lavoisier (1865), passim, and Donaldson (2017), passim.
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Yeates, L.B. (2018), "James Braid (II): Mesmerism, Braid's Crucial Experiment, and Braid's Discovery of Neuro-Hypnotism",
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Freud, S. (1957/1895), "Case 3: Miss Lucy R., age 30", pp. 106-124 in J. Breuer & S. Freud (trans. J. Strachey),
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Franklin, J.L., "The Three Contraries of Benjamin Franklin: 'the gout, the stone and not yet master of all my passions'".
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Note that it was published in The Hague, rather than in Paris, thereby avoiding the need for approval by the Royal censor.
6463: 2705:" effects of his (d'Eslon's) treatments on disease, the "Franklin Commission" firmly stated that its investigations would 9607:
Topley, M. (1976), "Chinese Traditional Etiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong", pp. 243-265 in C. Leslie (Ed.),
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For instance, "as water is to the mill" (Mesmer, 1799, p. 24.), "as wind or water are to a mill" (p. 100), etc.
3523: 2667:) treatments were not being examined, and why the agency of the (supposed verified) "cures" were not being investigated. 2644:
treatments, which were known to be effective but whose underlying mechanisms were unknown. In the emerging profession of
2130:", identified a number of common characteristics among the majority of those who displayed these "convulsive movements": 8025: 4488:
sont une longue application des mains, la chaleur produite par cette application, l’irritation excitée par le frottement
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The second of the two reports, made by de Jussieu alone (of 51 pages) was independently published on 17 September 1784.
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The "baquet" (lit. 'a tub') was a device of Mesmer's design, that he had constructed by analogy with the newly invented
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The contributors included aristocrats, both Roman Catholic and Protestant clerics, medical practitioners, and both the
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Despite the widespread (erroneous) statements to the effect that he was executed by "his own invention" -- namely, the
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Sometimes, to accomplish his object, he confines himself to the regulation of the diet: sometimes he employs medicines.
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It was under these circumstances that a decision was made to investigate the work of d'Eslon – although he was already
988: 9624: 8574:
Correspondance Littéraire, Philosophique et Critique par Grimm, Diderot, Raynal, Meister, Etc. ..., (Tome Quatorzième)
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briefer (39 pages), far less complex, and, therefore, far less influential. The Report was divided into two sections:
3257:) – specifically addressed the perceived moral dangers occasioned by the physical practices of the animal magnetists: 2976: 1901:", his use of magnets – which, although "useful", were always "imperfect', unless they had been applied according to " 1675:
d'Eslon also directly addressed the charge that Mesmer had "discovered" nothing, and that the "extraordinary things" (
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Elliotson, J. (1848), "An Account of 'A Review of my Reviewers' by James Esdaile, M.D., Calcutta, January 26, 1848",
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See: Elliotson (1845); (1847a); (1847b); (1847c); (1848); and (1852); and Esdaile (1846); (1849); (1850); and (1853).
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It is significant that not only was physicist Le Roy an expert on all things electrical, but also that, in 1749 with
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He also notes that, in their "magnetic" treatment of 37 patients, the Commissioners were unable to produce a single "
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As a consequence of the debunking by Colquhoun, Braid, and others, phreno-magnetism – which, in yet another case of "
3988:(Colquhoun, 1843), that there was no foundation for phrenology, in general, and for phreno-magnetism, in particular. 2915:"They saw in the centre of a large apartment a circular box, made of oak, and about a foot or a foot and an [ 2701:
and, despite d'Eslon's insistence that its investigations principally (and, almost, exclusively) concentrate on the "
2148:(c) Even the "weakest" of patients very rarely displayed "convulsive movements" if they were "magnetized separately". 1742:), and d'Eslon himself had taught 160 medical men (this group included 21 members of the Paris Faculty of Medicine). 1407: 1040: 841:
Once again, Mesmer rejected the offer made on behalf of the King; and, having been told that the King's decision was
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Doutes d'un provincial, Proposés à MM. les Médecins-Commissaires chargés par le Roi de l'examen du Magnétisme animal
9334: 8572:"(Remarks on the death of d'Eslon)", at pp. 446-447, in "September 1786", at pp. 438-447, in F. M. Grimm, 7952:
Observations sur les deux Rapports de MM. les Commissaires nommés par sa Majesté, pour l'examen du Magnétisme Animal
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Note that many modern English texts repeat the typographical error that occurs in the mistaken rendering of Moll's "
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Pitres' diagram of the 'hypnogenetic zones' (subject's left side) and 'hypno-arresting zones' (subject's right side)
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Rance, K. (trans. J. Johnson) (2018), "Between Enlightenment and Romanticism: A Counter-Revolutionary Mesmerism?",
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Fuller, R.C. (1982). Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many Received Tenents, and commonly Presumed Truths (Fourth Edition)
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See, for instance, Gallo & Finger (2000), Hadlock (2000), Finger & Gallo (2004), and Kennaway (2010, 2012).
4982:" ('The Influence of the Planets on the Human Body') -- i.e., using the title appended to his original manuscript, 3444: 3205:
the Commissioners concluded that "the true causes of the effects attributed to this new agent known by the name of
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Mesmer left Austria in 1777, in controversial circumstances, following his treatment of the young Austrian Pianist
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McConkey, K.M. & Barnier, A.J. (1991), "The Benjamin Franklin Report on Animal Magnetism: A Summary Comment",
8558: 8363:(n.d.), "Report of the Royal Commission to Investigate Animal Magnetism: Résumé with Extracts, (11 August 1784)", 7146:
with which he was already familiar in great detail, from his own extended studies at the Salpêtrière with Charcot.
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For Mesmer's letter see Mesmer (1785); and for Caullet de Veaumorel's rejoinder, see Caullet de Veaumorel (1785a).
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Godwin (1785), pp. 37-38, translates the relevant passage as follows (citing Mesmer (1781), pp. 35, 37):
5736: 2122:"fell into the convulsive movements that have been called Crises" – and noting that these "convulsive movements" ( 2086: 1474:
Mesmer was also well aware of the extent to which, through the "distortion" caused by these "substantive words" (
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d'Eslon (1784b): abridged translation at d'Eslon (1963); also, see discussion at Pattie (1994), pp. 167–172.
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Turner, Christopher (2006), "Mesmeromania, or, The Tale of the Tub: The Therapeutic Powers of Animal Magnetism",
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armonica), having named it "in honour of the Italian word for "Harmony"." (Meyer & Allen, 1988, p. 185.
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the (1799) investigations of Chester physician John Haygarth (1740-1827) into the efficacy of Perkins' "tractors"
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The Commission found no evidence of any kind to support d'Eslon's claim for the existence of a "magnetic fluid":
2098: 2074: 980: 453: 9444: 8627:"Herfner, Irys" [pseud. of Henry Ferris). (1844), "A Few More Words About Mesmerism—The State of Sleep-Waking", 8214:
Elliotson, J. (1852), "An Account of the Mesmeric Hospital in Bengal since Dr. Esdaile's departure from India",
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The conduct and rationale of the commission's investigations is described in considerable detail in its Report.
9875: 9261:('Antimagnetism, or the origin, progress, decadence, renewal and refutation of animal magnetism'), London: n.p. 9081:('Antimagnetism, or the origin, progress, decadence, renewal and refutation of animal magnetism'), London: n.p. 7723: 6966:, "the theoretical position of each ‘science’ had now been confirmed by the other" (Yeates, 2018, p. 54). 6503:: English translation at Bailly and Others (1963), Bailly, et al. (2002), and Donaldson (2014), pp. 77-83. 5153:(1799, pp. 29-42; translated at Bloch, 1980, pp. 101-106), Mesmer makes numerous references to both " 5069:
Similarly useful qualitative metaphorical/abstract overarching constructs of later creation are those such as:
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The two Reports also (separately, and in some detail) explained why the nature of the "effects" of (supposedly
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Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90
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Peter, B. (2005), "Gassner’s Exorcism — not Mesmer’s magnetism — is the real Predecessor of modern Hypnosis",
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Finger, S. (2006), Benjamin Franklin, "Electricity, and the Palsies: On the 300th Anniversary of his Birth",
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procedures and the (secular/healing derived) "magnetization-by-contact" procedures of d’Eslon – in Esdaile's
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Despite these fundamental similarities, there were many (even more fundamental) differences between the two.
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Kennaway, J. (2010), "From Sensibility to Pathology: The Origins of the Idea of Nervous Music around 1800",
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By 1779, Mesmer (1779, pp. 34–35) was expressing his concern that many had "confused" – such as the "
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Moreover, in order to gain a balanced understanding of the contemporary significance of the Commissions –
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Pollitt, Ben, (2019), "Sympathy, Magnetism, and Immoderate Laughter: The Feather in Cook's Last Voyage",
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume III: Philosophical Delusions
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Most likely these particular class notes were based upon the notes prepared by Mesmer's close associate,
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Problems with objectively determining the precise therapeutic action of any supposed "efficacious remedy"
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The efficacy of "magnetic" treatments and the agency of (supposed) "magnetic" cures were not investigated
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These conclusions are consistent with the declaration made on 1 May 1784 by the eminent French chemist,
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And, moreover, given that the overarching metaphorical "principle" of Mesmer had been (inappropriately)
2605:(1) They had no persuasive evidence to suggest that the reports of Mesmer's "cured patients" were false. 1922: 1738:
account (d'Eslon, 1784b, pp. 25–26), Mesmer had taught 300 students, 160 of whom were medical men (
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Elliotson, J. (1845), "More painless Amputations and other Surgical Operations in the Mesmeric State",
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designed by Lavoisier; and great care was taken to eliminate what James Braid would later identify as "
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Oeuvres de Lavoisier Publiées par les Soins de S. Exc. le Ministre de l’Instruction Publique, Tome III
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Bailly, J.-S., and Others (1963), "Secret Report on Mesmerism, or Animal Magnetism", pp. 3-7, in
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Bailly, J.S. (1800). Rapport secret sur le mesmérisme. Le Conservateur, Vol. 1, pp. 146–155.
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de Jussieu (1784): summary at Crabtree (1993), pp. 28-29, and at Pattie (1994), pp. 152-153.
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He also refers to it (1799, p. 12) as "a "new method for preserving and re-establishing health" (
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Belhoste, B. (trans. J. Johnson) (2018), "Franz Anton Mesmer: Magnetiser, Moralist, and Republican",
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Phreno-magnetism, as a practice, involved the physical activation (termed "excitation") of specific "
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Modern facsimiles of a standard pair of Perkins' Patent Tractors (one made of steel, the other brass)
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The "Franklin" Commissions' investigations considered to be a "classic" example of a controlled trial
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in deceptively presenting a means of curing the sick, prevent them from seeking their cures elsewhere
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von Haller, A. (1753b), "De Partibus Corporis Humani Sensilibus et Irritabilibus", Die 6 Maii 1752,
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Coe, W.C. & Sarbin, T.R. (1966), "An Experimental Demonstration of Hypnosis as Role Enactment",
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L'antimagnétisme, ou origine, progrès, décadence, renouvellement et réfutation du magnétisme animal
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L'antimagnétisme, ou origine, progrès, décadence, renouvellement et réfutation du magnétisme animal
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Kaptchuk, T.J., Kerr, C.E. & Zanger, A. (2009), "Placebo Controls, Exorcisms, and the Devil",
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The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Application to Human Welfare
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The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Their Application to Human Welfare
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Analyse raisonnée des Rapports des Commissaires chargés par le Roi de l'examen du Magnétisme Animal
5718: 5056:), they belonged, in fact, to "an ancient system that has been abandoned for more than a century" ( 4771: 4276: 4135: 3847: 3634: 2224: 1913:
Mesmer developed particular theatrical therapeutic rituals, often accompanied by the sounds of the
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Poissonnier, P.-I., Caille, C.-A., Mauduyt de La Varenne, P.-J.-C., & Andry, C.-L.-F. (1784),
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Lettres de M. Mesmer, à Messieurs les auteurs du Journal de Paris, et à M. Franklin (20 Août 1784)
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Freud had discontinued this "head pressure" practice by, at least, 1904 – and, possibly, by 1900.
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practices had no place within the "medical penumbra" – and despite the consequent, and widespread
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It was composed of four physicians from the Paris Faculty of Medicine – the physician and chemist
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Animal. Ouvrage mis au jour par M. C. de V., Médecin de la Maison de Monsieur (Troisieme Edition)
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and discriminate them; the same experience has taught the method in which they are to be treated.
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Animal magnetism may well exist without being useful but it cannot be useful if it does not exist
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principles, were "physiological", rather than "psychological" interventions – in contrast to the
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Elliotson, J. (1847a), "Report of the Calcutta Committee on Dr. Esdaile's Mesmeric Operations",
8087: 7593:, detailing a number of important corrections that need to be made to the foregoing text, is on 6947:
Zadkiel's Magazine, or Record and Review of Astrology, Phrenology, Mesmerism, and Other Sciences
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Bailly (1784b, p. 2); translation taken from Donaldson (2014), p. 78 (emphasis added).
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In noting that there were two different ways that "the action of magnetism on animate bodies" ("
2212:(b) the immediate and long-term physiological and psychological consequences of experiencing a " 2205:(a) the immediate and long-term physiological and psychological consequences of experiencing a " 2141:) – there were, also, they noted, rare examples of "convulsive movements" due to the operator's 679: 538:
in 1784, that were conducted simultaneously by a committee composed of four physicians from the
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Report of one of the commissioners charged by the King with the examination of animal magnetism
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Booth, C., "The Rod of Aesculapios: John Haygarth (1740–1827) and Perkins’ Metallic Tractors",
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See, for example, Bailly (1784a), at p. 22: translated, at Godwin, (1785), p. 48, as:
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Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism and Psychical Research, 1766-1925: An Annotated Bibliography
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misrepresentation of the Commissioners' use of "blinding" and "sham" procedures, due to the ("
2460:– to explain the application of their techniques and to describe their therapeutic rationale. 2158:(e) Female patients were far more likely to display "convulsive movements" than male patients. 1953: 8580:
Hackmann, W.D. (1998), "Electroscope", pp. 219–221 in R. Bud & D. J. Warner (eds.),
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Anon (1911/1912), "Nova et Vetera ('New and Old '): Modern Faith Healing: F. Anton Mesmer]",
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See (1785c, p.viii), which is an abridgement of the original text, at (1785, pp. 14-15).
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The (oft-forgotten) value and long-term significance of Mesmer's "positioning", according to
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Kennaway, J. (2012), "Musical Hypnosis: Sound and Selfhood from Mesmerism to Brainwashing",
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For more on electricity and mesmerism, see Schneck (1959); Ludwig (1964); and Sutton (1981).
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Remarks on the dangers of 'Crises': in the final section of the (Franklin) Commission Report
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Ogden, Emily (2012), "Mesmer's Demon: Fiction, Falsehood, and the Mechanical Imagination",
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Kihlstrom, J. F., "Mesmer, the Franklin Commission, and Hypnosis: A Counterfactual Essay",
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Fischer-Homberger, Esther (1979), "On the Medical History of the Doctrine of Imagination",
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demonstrated that either the physician or the medicine causes the recovery of the patient."
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at the age of 32, in 1766: his doctoral dissertation (Mesmer, 1766) had the official title
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involved two entirely separate and independent French Royal Commissions, each appointed by
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Salas & Salas (1996), p. 70; Franklin, et al., 2002, p. 335; emphasis added.
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According to Darnton (1968, p. 50), d'Eslon " while being mesmerized in August 1786".
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More than a century later, and entirely consistent with the Commissioners' findings, both
1679:) that Mesmer had demonstrably effected were due to his "captivation of the imagination" ( 1180: 1064: 8: 9905: 9633: 9303: 9253: 9090: 8816:
Kovach, F.J., "The Enduring Question of Action at a Distance in Saint Albert the Great",
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from a Visitor to the Hospital; and a private letter from Dr. Esdaile to Dr. Elliotson",
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There is no evidence that there was ever any independent verification of Pitres' claims.
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In de Jussieu's dissenting view, " despite d’Eslon's "magnetic fluid" claims having been
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The materialist "mesmerists" and the metaphysical "animal magnetists" each held that all
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Description of the Crises produced by d'Eslon's procedures (Franklin Commission's Report)
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Herr, H.W., "Franklin, Lavoisier, and Mesmer: Origin of the Controlled Clinical Trial",
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committee of the Royal Academy of Medicine in 1831, and remarks on Col. Stone's pamphlet
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Duveen & Klickstein (1955), p. 285: it would seem that application of the term
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that august body might be persuaded to put its stamp of approval on Mesmer's discovery".
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Gravitz, Melvin A. (1994), "The First Use of Self-Hypnosis: Mesmer mesmerizes Mesmer",
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Mesmerism: A Translation of the Original Scientific and Medical writings of F.A. Mesmer
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Paulet, 1784, pp. 117-118: English translation taken from Bloch, 1980, p. 83.
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Caullet de Veaumorel, Louis (1785a), "(Letter to the Editors, dated 7 January 1785)",
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Castronovo, R. (1999). "The Antislavery Unconscious: Mesmerism, Vodun, and Equality",
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This issue is, for example, central to the "contentious" question of whether (or not)
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Freud's visits were driven by his desire to investigate the claims and methods of the
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The additional, welcome significance of this discovery was that, to the supporters of
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The substantial existence of "animal magnetism" and "magnetic fluid" were investigated
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McConkey, K.M. & Perry, C. (2002), "Benjamin Franklin and Mesmerism, Revisited",
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Bailly (1784a), pp. 57-58; translation taken from Anon (1911/1912), p. 136.
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Seeing persons/events distant in time or place: see Melton, 2001a., pp. 297–301.
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In concluding their report, they stress that they had not observed any "real cures" (
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At the head of their principal report, the Commissioners directly summarize Mesmer's
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Never had a more extraordinary question divided the opinions of an enlightened nation
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pp. 101–103, Wyckoff (1975), pp. 76–78, and Pattie (1994), pp. 87–89.
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Lavoisier, A. (1865), "Sur le Magnétisme Animal", pp. 499-527 in A. Lavoisier,
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Rapport de l'un des commissaires chargés par le Roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal
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Anon (1844), "Conversazione on "Hypnotism" -- At the Royal Manchester Institution",
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See Freud, 1957/1895, pp. 107-112; especially the footnote at pp. 110-111.
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d'Eslon had already been expelled, for essentially the same reasons, a year earlier.
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The natural history of man presents us in this respect with very singular phenomena.
2165:) were far more likely to display "convulsive movements" than poor female patients ( 2109: 1454:), as if they were "substances": in Mesmer's words, "substantivise the properties", 9757: 9491: 9422: 9400: 9379: 9362: 9348: 9325: 9293: 9270: 9185: 9153: 9144: 8999: 8985: 8949: 8923: 8873: 8849: 8835: 8821: 8807: 8790: 8760: 8746: 8683: 8640: 8599: 8535: 8531: 8517: 8394: 8365:
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission, U.S. National Archives
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Bartha, Paul (2019), "Analogy and Analogical Reasoning", in Edward N. Zalta (ed.),
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Secretary of State for the King's Household and Minister of the Department of Paris
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Meyer, Vera & Allen, Kathleen J., "Benjamin Franklin and the Glass Armonica",
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Dr. Collier has since denied the existence of what he professed to have discovered
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See: Charcot, 1893, 1897; and Bernheim, 1888, pp. 285-286; 1889, p. 202.
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demonstrations of "animal magnetism" were attended by James Braid in November 1841
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The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
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minutes" in those cases where he was "not satisfied with the hypnosis attained".
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Poissonnier (1784), p. 2; the translation is from Pattie (1994) p. 156.
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a means of healing and, even, one of preserving/defending oneself against disease
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Forces and Fields: The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics
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Freud, S. (1966), "Hypnosis", pp. 105–114 in J. Strachey (ed. and trans.),
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In contrast to the mesmerists, the metaphysical "magnetists" – who (mistakenly)
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Marie-Paule Angélique d’Albert de Luynes (1744–1781), "the Duchesse de Chaulnes"
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the "contagious" yawning reflex of individuals exposed to the yawning of others
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That is, the "imitation" that is universally observed in the circumstances of "
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Problems with objectively determining the precise agency of any supposed "cure"
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de connoître et lever les obstacles qui peuvent troubler ou empêcher son action
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Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan (1749–1792), "the Princess of Lamballe"
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Rapport au Public, de quelques Abus Auxquels le Magnétisme animal a donné lieu
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bleeding, blistering, purging, and administration of highly toxic heavy metals
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Ludwig, A.M. (1964), "An Historical Survey of the Early Roots of Mesmerism",
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Rapport des Commissaires chargés par le Roi, de l’examen du magnétisme animal
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Pattie (1994), pp. 156-157, paraphrasing Poissonnier (1784), p. 12.
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Anon (1911/1912), p. 137; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 65-66.
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Anon (1911/1912), p. 137; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 64-65.
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Yeates (2018), p. 52: "'lower' phenomena included: displays of amnesia,
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Anon (1911/1912), p. 137; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 63-64.
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Anon (1911/1912), p. 137; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 62-63.
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Anon (1911/1912), p. 137; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 61-62.
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Prior to his arrival in Paris in 1777 – with a letter of recommendation from
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See, for instance, Rosen (1946); James (1975); and Ridgway (1993, and 1994).
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For a specific example of Lavoisier's experimental design, see Lavoisier's "
5792:. (translation taken from Huneman (2008, p. 618, emphasis in originsl). 5105: 4228: 3791:
in the history of science – subsequent to which things were never the same.
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without resort to unnecessary hypothesizing about what is behind the "power"
3342:) – is increased by "the suppression of error": i.e., given that "error" is 3060:
The "Franklin Commission's" investigations produced three separate reports.
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does not substantiate proffered explanations " (Yeates, 2018, p. 61).
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Joseph-Marie-François de Lassone, President of the Paris Faculty of Medicine
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position – that his therapies, which involved easily understood, systematic
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substantial "magnetic fluid" and/or "animal magnetism" required resolution.
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Tsouyopoulos, N. (1988), "The Influence of John Brown's Ideas in Germany",
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Schwartz, S.A. (2004), "Franklin's Forgotten Triumph: Scientific Testing",
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Pattie, F.A. (1956), "Mesmer's Medical Dissertation and Its Debt to Mead's
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For a description of two exemplar cases, see Anon (1843), pp. 205-206.
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See: Atkinson (1843, passim: especially the editorial footnote at page 294:
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Salas & Salas (1996), p. 71; Franklin, et al. (2002), p. 338.
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Glass armonica, Instrument: before 1785; case probably early 19th century,
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different routes, and to turn aside this interior action, it is pernicious.
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Walmsley, D M. (1967), "Mesmer, Marie Antoinette and a Royal Commission",
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McConkey, K.M. & Perry, C. (1985), "Benjamin Franklin and Mesmerism",
8937: 6843:), a point repeatedly made by quacks and their supporters." (p. 169). 6530:
Although they, too, used blindfolded subjects (Pattie, 1994), p. 156.
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Anon (1911/1912), p. 79; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 1-3.
6233:
Salas & Salas (1996), p. 71; Franklin, et al., 2002, p. 339.
5672:
Anon (1911/1912), p. 80; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 7-8.
5663:
Anon (1911/1912), p. 80; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 6-7.
5654:
Anon (1911/1912), p. 79; translation of Bailly (1784a), pp. 5-6.
3443:), were united in their views that all of the supposed "miracle cures" at 1977:(undated) "Catechism" that he had delivered exclusively to his followers, 671: 663: 9724: 9388:
Rosen, G. (1959), "History of Medical Hypnosis", in Schneck, J.M. (ed.),
8764: 7615:, Vol. 11, No.  271, (30 November 1844), pp. 181-182. 7306:, Vol. 12, No. 598, (Saturday, 15 July 1843), pp. 205-207. 6638:
See Crabtree (1993), pp. 31-32; and Pattie (1994), pp. 155-156.
5801:
Anon (1911/1912), p. 137; translation of Bailly (1784a), p. 61.
5516: 5486: 5363: 5202: 3881: 3529: 3465:
The "Society Commission's" investigations produced two separate reports.
3303:
The Commission's brief "courtesy report" to the Royal Academy of Sciences
2902:
experience through their own senses the reported effects of this agent".
2560:
Mesmer's earlier refusal to have his "magnetic" interventions scrutinized
2400: 2353: 2029: 1705:
rejected his plea, and in refusing accused personally of misdemeanour".
1534: 1416:
In other words, as a product of its time, Mesmer's enterprise was one of
1194:, and the physician and Professor of chemistry in the Collège de France, 359: 305: 205: 160: 9742: 9712:
Suggestions of Abuse: True and False Memories of Childhood Sexual Trauma
9678: 9655: 9583: 9477: 9311: 9257: 9234: 9216: 9162: 9130: 9077: 9067: 9059:: includes Mesmer's "27 Propositions", as an appendix (pp. 74–85); 8904:
for a complete English translation, see Donaldson (2014), pp. 18–38
8773: 8617: 8492: 8391:
a translation of Bailly (1784a) -- a reprint of Salas & Salas (1996)
8029: 7945:, Vol. 8, No. 6, Supplement, (10 January 1784), p. 45-48. 7941:
d'Eslon, C. (1784a), "(Letter to the Editors, dated 28 December 1783)",
7934: 7925: 7784: 7774: 7679: 7602:
Braid, J. (1843b), "Observations on the Phenomena of Phreno-Mesmerism",
7383: 4897:
was specifically manufactured by Franklin for Mme Brillon de Jouy (see:
4041:, or "hypno-arresting zones", which, he said, when stimulated, abruptly 3163:
The first (66 page) report was presented to the King on 11 August 1784.
2503: 764:
to the mechanisms that come before it or by which it developed. One can
573:
The "Franklin Commission's" investigations are notable as a very early "
8522:, Vol. 89, No. 7, (July 1989), pp. 12, 14, 16-18, 20-21. 7491:
Suggestive Therapeutics: A Treatise on the Nature and Uses of Hypnotism
7427:
a translation of Bailly (1800) -- a reprint of Bailly and Others (1963)
7296:
includes (at pp. 1–44), a reprint of Godwin (1785), pp. 1–108
6337:
la Nature offer un moyen universel de guérir et le préserver les Hommes
6127:
en dépouillant ces effets de toutes les illusions qui peuvent s’y mêler
5476:
See "Encounter with Maximillian Hell" at Pattie (1994), pp. 33-41.
5127:
von Haller's "irritability" referred to the condition within which the
4894: 4879: 4747: 3038: 2924: 2457: 2433: 2047: 1966: 1884: 1353: 1077: 1069: 413: 317: 285: 257: 175: 165: 155: 9539: 9109:
Mesmer, F.A. (1785), "(Letter to the Editors, dated 4 January 1785)",
8735:, Vol. 374, No. 9697, (10 October 2009), pp. 1234-1235. 8594:
Hadlock, H. (2000), "Sonorous Bodies: Women and the Glass Harmonica",
8001:
La Recherche des eaux minérales de Cauterez: Avec la maniere d'en user
5919:" see Hesse, (1961); and, especially, Kovach (1979), pp. 161–171. 5900:
Namely, "correctness of behaviour", as distinct from its counterpart,
5370:-- is intended to denote something similar to the military notion of " 4632:
According to Belhoste (2018, p. 29), in the final section (viz.,
4369:
became, and remains, a commonly used strategy in scientific research."
4069:
Freud's Couch, with his own chair in its standard position at its head
3906:
in general, there remained a small number of historically significant
3591: 3450: 3364:
C'est un bel emploi de l’autorité, que celui de distribuer la lumière!
3080:
The Report's citation of Mesmer's 'characterization' of his principle.
2299: 2216:" upon the "animal economy" of an otherwise completely healthy person, 1892:
And, he argued, from this "confusion" of his "animal magnetism" with "
1217: 8187:
Elliotson, J. (1847b), "More Painless Surgical Operations in India",
7218: 6039: 5901: 5776:"This term, taken in the most exact and common sense, refers only to 5006: 4661:
For more on Mesmer, the "foreigner", see Pick (2000), pp. 44–67.
4365: 4326: 4197: 4165: 4140: 4074: 3009: 2954: 2587: 2326: 2060:
The Commissions' observations and description of d'Eslon's "magnetic
2043: 1893: 1387: 1315: 1154:
The second of the two Royal Commissions, usually referred to as the "
1016: 535: 354: 9618:
Facts in Mesmerism, With Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into It
9339:, Vol. 391, No. 1, (January-March 2018), pp. 177-196. 8887:('Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, Volume One'), Paris: Chez Cuchet 8802:, "Response Expectancy Theory and Application: A Decennial Review", 8476:
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years
7355:, Vol. 391, No. 1, (January-March 2018), pp. 129-152. 3965: 2634:"evidence of efficacy was not sufficient for academic approval. The 2305:
exposure to an extended sequence of standard "magnetic" treatments.
1501:(b) (given that the agent's therapeutic effects were observed to be 1048:
The first of the two Royal Commissions, usually referred to as the "
8862:
Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience
8603: 8559:
Gregory, S. (2015), "Media in Action: From Exorcism to Mesmerism",
7799:
a (simultaneously published) English translation of Charcot's 1892
7184:
the cephalopod's eye and the vertebrate's eye evolved independently
6865:, 'to draw' -- because they were drawn (or rubbed) across the skin. 5730: 5547:
See, for instance, Hyatt King (1945), and Meyer & Allen (1988).
5271:
Lafontain remained a committed "magnetist", publishing the journal
4343: 4239: 3868: 3701: 3566: 3503: 3408:
been produced "by the power of the imagination alone" (p. 9).
2664: 2649: 2331: 2311: 2185:
The Commissions' remarks on the perceived dangers of the "magnetic
2025: 1937: 1653: 1383: 1173: 760:
to the higher-level mechanisms of which it is a component. One can
280: 78: 73: 33: 9771:, Vol. 391, No. 1, (January-March 2018), pp. 57-80. 9305:
Mesmerism and Christian Science: A Short History of Mental Healing
9133:
Recueil des Pièces les plus intéressantes sur le Magnétisme Animal
8678:
Hyatt King, A. (1945), "The Musical Glasses and Glass Harmonica",
8033:('A Critical History of Animal Magnetism: Part One'), Paris: Mame. 7636:, Vol. 58, No. 2974, (20 December 1913), pp. 10-13. 7463:, Vol. 391, No. 1, (January-March 2018), pp. 27-56. 7110:
See, for example, Pitres (1891), pp. 103, 107, 109, 499, etc.
4476:" was of a far greater intensity than just a superficial stroking. 4065: 9241:
Mesmer and Animal Magnetism: A Chapter in the History of Medicine
8848:, Vol. 28, No. 2, (April–June 2019), pp. 147–175. 7364:, Vol. 391, No. 1, (January-March 2018), pp. 3-26. 5438:
Ceux qui savent le secret en doutent plus que ceux qui l'ignorent
3706: 2841: 2793: 2781:
it; if it be too slow or too rapid, he accelerates or retards it.
2572:
Already, in his earlier (18 September 1780) interaction with the
2449: 1999:
En general, je n'use des petits moyens que lorsque j'y suis forcé
1658: 1345: 1335: 9534:, Vol. 72, No. 3, (September 1981), pp. 375–392. 8639:, Vol. 23, No. 5, (September 2005), pp. 346–351. 8629:
The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
8304:, Vol. 66, No. 10, (23 May 2006), pp. 1559–1563. 8294:
Histoire du Merveilleux dans les Temps Modernes: Tome Troisième
7606:, Vol. 9, No. 216, (11 November 1843), pp. 74-75. 4684: 3825: 3175: 3016:(4) "they observed the responses of all varieties of subject to 2619:
namely, that, even if significant improvements in his patients'
9184:, Vol. 46, No. 4, (December 2018), pp. 573–578. 8996:
The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
8982:
The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
8830:
Landefeld, Seth, "LE BACQUET DE Mṛ MESMER: Paris, circa 1780",
8820:, Vol. 10, No. 3, (November 1979), pp. 161–235. 8083:, Vol. 98, No. 12, (December 2005), pp. 572–575. 7341:
Vol. 1, No. 2666, (3 February 1912), pp. 249-252
7337:
Vol. 1, No. 2665, (27 January 1912), pp. 199-201
7333:
Vol. 1, No. 2664, (20 January 1912), pp. 133-137
6710:
interrupted Mesmer when he attempted to address the assembly ".
4546:
There is also another modern distortion through the consistent
4004: 3833: 3468: 3008:(3) "they observed and compared the responses of subjects when 2209:" upon the "animal economy" of an already seriously ill person, 2021: 2017: 1344:") through his creation and development – using analogies with 1261: 772:
to see the wider context with which it operates." (p. 163)
558:), and a second committee composed of five physicians from the 9490:, Vol. 88, No. 5, (October 1979), pp. 527–546. 9347:, Vol. 1, No. 4, (November 1993), pp. 191–198. 9180:
Mulford, Carla J. (2018), "Benjamin Franklin in Passy, 1784",
9143:, Vol. 12, No. 4, (January 1988), pp. 185–188. 9126:
for an English translation, see Bloch (1980), pp. 87–132.
8998:, Vol. 50, No. 4, (October 2002), pp. 320–331. 8948:, Vol. 12, No. 4, (October 1964), pp. 205–217. 8872:, Vol. 50, No. 4, (October 2002), pp. 309–319. 8789:, Vol. 50, No. 4, (October 2002), pp. 407–419. 8598:, Vol. 53, No. 3, (Autumn, 2000), pp. 507–542. 7844:, Vol. 71, No. 6, (December 1996), pp. 400-406. 7452:
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition)'
7425:, vol. 50, No. 4, (October 2002), pp. 364–368: 7315:, Vol. 10, No. 243, (18 May 1844), pp. 137-139. 4737:
to his translation of the Report of the "Franklin" Commission.
3264:
Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir, Lieutenant-General of Paris Police
2811:
Other highly significant, but unassociated "causative" factors
1282:
A Physico-Medical Dissertation on the Influence of the Planets
9675:, Vol. 17, No. 4, (1 April 1967), pp. 264–270. 9658:
A Dissertation on the Sensible and Irritable Parts of Animals
9399:, Vol. 6, No. 10 (October 2019), pp. 802–803. 9378:, Vol. 1, No. 4, (October 1946), pp. 527–550. 9324:, Vol. 101, No. 4, (October 2019), pp. 70–94, 8501:
includes (at pp. 19–108) a translation of Bailly (1784a)
8456:, No. 3, Vol. 4, (November 2000), pp. 326-343. 8389:, Vol. 50, No. 4 (October 2002), pp. 332–363: 8341:, Vol. 9, No. 4, (November 1979), pp. 619-628. 8229:, Vol. 3, No. 12, (January 1846), pp. 498-508. 7930:, London & Paris: P.Fr. Didot; C.M. Saugrain; Clousier. 7913:
In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries across the Life Sciences
7329:
Vol. 1, No. 2663, (13 January 1912), pp. 79-84
7212: 4172:" (i.e., similar entities descended from a common ancestor). 3549: 3329: 2610: 1905:" – was being consistently misrepresented and misunderstood. 1857:"The Fixed Stars, the Frontier to the Beyond" from the album 1798: 9756:, Vol. 29, No. 1, (January 2016), pp. 32–36. 9229:, Vol. 11, No. 3, (July, 1956), pp. 275–287. 9156:
Der Hypnotismus (Zweite vermehrte und umgearbeitete Auflage)
8984:, Vol. 33, No. 2, (April 1985), pp. 122–130. 8976:, Vol. 19, No. 2, (November 1991), pp. 77-86. 8413:
Freud, S. (1891), "Hypnose", pp. 724-732 of Anton Bum,
8092:, Vol. 110, No. 4, (April 2017), pp. 163-167. 7797:, Vol. 8, No. 44, (January 1893), pp. 18–31: 7770:, Vol. 9, No. 9, (9 January 1785), pp. 38-39. 7570:, Vol. 13, No. 3, (August 2005), pp. 155-161. 7374:
Vol. 8, No. 202, (5 August 1843), pp. 294-296
7325:
Vol. 2, No. 2658, (9 December 1911), pp. 1555-1559
4060: 3680: 3652: 3586: 2836:
The preceding facts expose the error – a classic example of
2151:(d) Compared with individual treatments, group treatments – 1945:": at the Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy at 9436:, Vol. 55, No. 5, (October 2004), pp. 65-69. 9267:
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
8946:
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
8870:
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
8787:
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
8744:, Vol. 65, No. 3, (July 2010), pp. 396-426. 8563:, Vol. 4, No. 1, (September 2015), pp. 1-30. 8387:
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
7990:
Davies Wilson, Rebecca (2014), "The Problem of Mesmerism",
7813:('The Faith that Heals'), Paris: Bureaux du Progrès Médical 7736:, Vol. 77, No. 1, (January 1988), pp. 34-37. 7423:
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
7224: 6914:
See Collyer (1843), p. 10; and (1871), pp. 49-50.
4841: 4031:, or "hypnogenetic zones" which, he said, when stimulated, 3245:
The Commission's secret report ("for the King's eyes only")
3032:'magnetised' locations, objects, apparatus, and equipment". 2713:" effects of d'Eslon's procedures on the "animal economy". 2419: 2118:
Noting that some of those who were "magnetized" by d'Eslon
1946: 687: 9738:, Vol. 40, No. 1, (Autumn 2018), pp. 40–92. 9736:
Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis
9361:, Vol. 2, No. 1, (February 1994), pp. 1–7. 8759:, Vol. 25, No. 2, (May 2012), pp. 271–289. 8697:, Vol. 68, No. 7, (July 1975), pp. 446-447. 8693:
James, C.D. (1975), "Mesmerism: A Prelude to Anaesthesia,
8631:, Vol. 24, No. 139, (July 1844), pp. 78-90. 8209:, Vol. 6, No. 22, (July 1848), pp. 158–173. 8200:, Vol. 5, No. 18, (July 1847), pp. 178-186. 8111:
Duveen, Denis I.; Klickstein, Herbert S. (December 1955).
7761:, Vol. 53, No. 1, (Winter 1999), pp. 41-56. 7668:
Brown, M.W. (1933), "Charles Deslon, Disciple of Mesmer",
7302:
Anon (1843), "Recent Demonstrations of Animal Magnetism",
4138:– especially by Elliotson – in their influential journal, 3227: 3186: 2858:(c) it was Mesmer himself that had "cured" those patients. 2638:
had made physicians increasingly dissatisfied with purely
1793: 1309:
While in France it was his habit to travel to the town of
894:; and, within five years of the Commissions' Reports, the 8719:, Vol. 72, No 3, (Fall 1998), pp. 389-433. 8292:"Le Magnétisme Animal", pp. 171-182, in L. Figuier, 8191:, Vol. 5, No. 17, (April 1847), pp. 69-70. 8182:, Vol. 5, No. 17, (April 1847), pp. 50-69. 8031:
Histoire Critique du Magnétisme Animal (Première Partie)
7482:
De la Suggestion et de son Application à la Thérapeutique
3999: 3273: 3217: 2959: 2917: 2745: 1788: 1375:
Rosen (1959, pp. 4–5) noted that, it was clear that
727: 9727:
James Braid: Surgeon, Gentleman Scientist, and Hypnotist
9176:, Vol. 31, No. 1, (June 2019), pp. 71-92. 9113:, Vol. 9, No. 6, (6 January 1785), p. 22. 9102:
Lettre de M. Mesmer à M. le Comte de C*** (31 Août 1784)
8974:
Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
8554:, Vol. 405, (December 2002), pp. 311-319, 325. 8550:
Green, S.A., "The Origins of Modern Clinical Research",
8052:, vol. 7, No. 1, (January 2002), pp. 4-5. 6883:
A set of Perkins' patent tractors are on display at the
5928:
Specifically referring to Browne (1658), pp. 83-84.
5362:(viz. wrong behaviour) in this case -- as distinct from 4764:
died of natural causes (from the effects of a carbuncle)
2684:
curative effects of "magnetic" treatments on disease, or
9793:
Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, at Lyon
9785:
Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy, at Lyon
9461:
Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives
9199:"Of Phreno-Magnetism", pp. 374-411 in W. Newnham, 8963:"The Magnetisers", pp. 283-404 in Charles Mackay, 8637:
Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
6593:
The translation is taken from Teste (1843), p. 10.
3935:(1814-1891), an American physician and former pupil of 1957:
Three of Mesmer's subjects, with linked hands, at the "
1568:
José Custódio de Faria, a.k.a. "Abbé Faria" (1756-1819)
9649:
Commentarii Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis
9640:
Commentarii Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Gottingensis
9620:, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. 9376:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
9227:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
9211:, Vol. 47, No. 1, (2012), pp. 143–170. 8834:, Vol. 31, No. 3, (July 1976), p. 368. 8832:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
8742:
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
8682:, Vol. 72, No. 1, (1943), pp. 97–122.. 6874:
See Haygarth (1801), Booth (2005), and Lanska (2019).
5971:— a subset of sleepwalking — was often combined with " 5497:
plausibility" see "2.3 Plausibility" in Bartha (2019).
3355:– "good Government has an interest in destroying it". 691:
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, the French Minister of State
9629:, Vol. 32, Supp. 8, (1988), pp. 63-74. 9281:
Svengali's Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture
8885:
Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, &c. (Tome Premiere)
8659:(1980), "Introduction", pp.xi-xxiii in George Bloch, 8611:
Hypnotism and the Doctors, Volume I: Animal Magnetism
8043:, Vol. 1, No. 5, (1814), pp. 225-240. 7879:, White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications. 6751:
Note that, although this appears in the "original's"
6649:
sous peine d’être rayé du Tableau des Docteurs-Régens
5349:
Translation taken from Goldsmith (1934), p. 155.
5220:
un moyen nouveau de conserver et de rétablir la santé
3334:
Further (p. 4), given that the understanding of
2145:, where no direct physical contact had been involved. 1437: 756:
to the entities and activities composing it. One can
752:"From the perspective of a given phenomenon, one can 9560:
Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine
8806:, Vol. 6., No. 2, (1997), pp. 69–79. 7983:
Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France
7869:
The Fallacy of Phreno-Magnetism Detected and Exposed
7732:
Campbell, A., "Mesmer and Hahnemann: A Comparison",
7388:, Imprimé par ordre du Roi. Paris: Imprimerie Royale 5560:
rmonica (and not, as many modern writers suppose, a
5240:
See, for instance, Peter (2005), especially, pp.3-5.
4788:
appointed to replace him (Bailly, 1784a, p. 1).
3939:, announced that he had discovered the existence of 3277:] himself had admitted, under interrogation by 3199: 2514:
The "higher" and "lower" phenomena of the magnetists
2476: 1367:
Mesmer's "protoscience", rather than "pseudoscience"
1185:
Pierre Jean Claude Mauduyt de La Varenne (1732–1792)
892:" was under considerable pressure from many quarters 9562:, Vol. 4, No. 8, (October 1936): 651–699. 8380:, Vol. 50 (12 January 1758), pp. 481-483. 8234:Esdaile, J. (1849), "The Reality of Clairvoyance", 5058:
un ancien systême abandonné depuis près d’un siecle
4102:use, on one of his visits to Bernheim's clinic, at 2831: 2139:
procédés du Magnétisme animal, par contact immédiat
1570:, and the magnetists, such as d'Eslon, and, later, 1172:, the physician Claude-Antoine Caille (1743-), the 778: 9519:, Vol. 9, No. 2, (2003), pp. 11-36. 8316:Neurology of the Arts: Painting, Music, Literature 8277:, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 8275:Romantic Psychoanalysis: The Burden of the Mystery 5556:Franklin was most emphatic that his device was an 5207:There is no inner child – it is simply a metaphor! 4816:And, as Lavoisier later warned his readers in his 3063: 3024:'magnetisation'; and, as well, their responses to 2004: 1035: 902:took place on 14 July 1789; and four years later, 9752:Zabell, S. (2016), "The Virtues of Being Blind", 8900:, Paris: J.-B. Dumas, E. Grimauxm and F.A. Fouqué 8706:, Vol. 1, No. 2, (2016), pp. 4-16. 6046:, and President of the Paris Faculty of Medicine. 5022:Gauld (1992), p. 3; Peter (2005), p. 8. 4362:According to Devereaux, et al. (2002, p. 4): 1458:(Mesmer 1799, pp. 15–17) — in other words, " 1141: 9827: 9530:Sutton, G., "Electric Medicine and Mesmerism ", 9452:Shermer, M., "Testing the Claims of Mesmerism", 9269:, Vol.53, No.1, (February 2005), pp. 1–12. 9042:Dissertatio Physico-Medica de Planetarum Influxu 8265:Esmonin, Antoine (Marquis de Dampierre) (1784), 8110: 8101:, Edinburgh: James Lind Library, Sibbald Library 7827:The Therapeutic Revolution: From Mesmer to Freud 7632:Brandeis, L.D. (1913), "What Publicity Can Do", 7378:No. 203, (12 August 1843), pp. 308-311 6837:However, as Lanska (2019, p. 168) observes, 4976:Dissertatio Physico-Medica de Planetarum Influxu 4505:" of Kirsch (1997), and certain aspects of the " 3504:The (later) representations of Burdin and Dubois 3403:they were 'magnetised' (and were not manifested 2110:The Commissions' remarks on d'Eslon's "magnetic 1777:Once d'Eslon had been expelled from the rank of 1007:The Commissions were appointed in early 1784 by 650: 585:" of both the investigators and their subjects. 9611:, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 9546:Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature 8545:, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Kent, 2018. 8518:"The Chain of Reason vs. The Chain of Thumbs", 8510:, Doubleday, Doran & Co., (New York), 1934. 8260:, Vol. 11, No. 43, (October 1853), pp. 294–297. 8143:, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 8064:('The Colossus with Feet of Clay'), Paris: n.p. 7970:The Nature Of Hypnosis: Selected Basic Writings 7672:, Vol. 138, no. 11, pp. 232–233. 7411:The Nature Of Hypnosis: Selected Basic Writings 7030:See, for instance, the views of Newnham (1845). 6687:That is, 5 girls, 6 boys, 47 women, and 56 men. 2376: 731:] the various versions of psychoanalysis". 9769:Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française 9480:A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences, etc. 9337:Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française 9055:Mémoire sur la découverte du magnetisme animal 8238:, Vol. 7, No. 27, (October 1849), pp. 213–224. 8218:, Vol. 10, No. 39, (October 1852), pp. 278–293 8168:, Vol. 3, No. 12, (January 1846), pp. 490–508. 7685:: note that the book's title page has "Thomas 7461:Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française 7362:Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française 7353:Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française 6861:They were called "tractors" -- from the Latin 4980:de l'infuence des planètes sur le corps humain 4884:Madame Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (1774-1824) 3048:L'imagination fait tout, le Magnétisme est nul 2691:effects on the individual's "animal economy" ( 1520: 1490:), when considered as an agent, "could become 1059:, the physician and close friend of Franklin, 989:one of the classic indications for an exorcism 904:King Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793 9594:Foundations of Hypnosis: From Mesmer to Freud 9586:Recherches et Doutes sur le Magnétisme Animal 9548:, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 9515:Stengers I., "The Doctor and the Charlatan", 9390:Hypnosis in Modern Medicine, (Second Edition) 8596:Journal of the American Musicological Society 8530:, Vol.37, No.1, (July 1994), pp. 49–52. 8478:, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 8172:India Journal of Medical and Physical Science 5681:At Poissonnier, et al. (1784), pp. 9-19. 5400:or a member of the Paris Faculty of Medicine. 4766:, on 26 March 1814; however, both Lavoisier ( 3918:of which, for a short while, operated at the 3322:the findings of their combined efforts were " 2427: 881: 511: 8704:Journal of Neurological Research and Therapy 8695:Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 8680:Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association 8415:Therapeutisches Lexikon für praktische Ärzte 7975:an (abridged) translation of d'Eslon (1784b) 7915:, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 7803:article that was reprinted at Charcot (1897) 7700:, New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. 6557:Burdin & Dubois (1841, pp. 136-137. 6029:Joseph-Marie-François de Lassone (1717–1788) 5489:" plausibility -- in contrast to so-called " 5274:Le Magnétiseur: Journal du Magnétisme Animal 5188:Translation at Bloch (1980), pp. 96-97. 4446:Duveen & Klickstein (1955), p. 287. 3469:The report of four of the five Commissioners 3358:Moreover, anticipating the later remarks of 3157:Official Report of the "Franklin Commission" 1769:" (Gauld, 1992, p. 7, emphasis added). 1300:Maria Theresia von Paradis for her blindness 1090:Gabriel de Bory de Saint-Vincent (1720–1801) 554:(i.e., the "Franklin Commission", named for 9700:, Prentice-Hall, (Englewood Cliffs), 1975. 9565:Teste, Alphonse, trans. D. Spillan (1843), 9478:"Of Animal Magnetism", pp. 256-277 in 9392:, Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1959. 9085:translation at Bloch (1980), pp. 81–86 8846:Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 7658:, Manchester: Manchester University Press. 7656:Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France 7625:Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory 7595:the un-numbered page following p. 265. 7489:Bernheim, H. (trans. Herter, C.A.) (1889), 6295: 6293: 6291: 6289: 5891:, &c.", Sibly (1820), pp. 276-277. 5784:, the least disturbance of which is itself 5277:in Geneva, continuously, from 1859 to 1872. 5209:" (1994, p. 34, emphasis in original). 4750:(which, in fact, although its use had been 4638:, 'Morality') of his final published work, 3459:Official Report of the "Society Commission" 3390:their "reunited" constituents (p. 9). 2672:l’action du Magnétisme sur les corps animés 1839:Benjamin Franklin's glass Armonica (c.1776) 1828:" with those of an actual physical magnet ( 1289:Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities 638:if employed without the patient's knowledge 9656:von Haller, A. (1755) (trans. M. Tissot), 9609:Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study 9596:, Charles C. Thomas, (Springfield), 1970. 8552:Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 8508:Franz Anton Mesmer: A History of Mesmerism 8408:, Vol. 13, No. 1, (Winter 2021). 8251:, Vol.7, No.28 (January 1850), pp.353-368. 8021:] (in French). Paris: Veuve Hérissant. 8007: 7985:, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 7698:The Wizard from Vienna: Franz Anton Mesmer 7640:Brockliss, L.W.B. & Jones, C. (1997), 7497:an English translation of Bernheim (1888). 6669:Paraphrasing d'Eslon, (1784b), p. 25. 6169:Yeates (2018), p. 52; emphasis added. 5987:") of any sort (Barth, 1851, p. 24)". 5201:warned therapists against reifying their " 5077:", 'the sustaining force of nature', and " 4762:-- Guillotin survived the Revolution, and 3660:The Faculty identified some thirty of its 3148: 3039:The Report(s) of the "Franklin Commission" 2953:and a needle of iron not touched with the 1627: 1325: 1276:and began a study of medicine, graduating 1229:Title page of Mesmer's (1766) dissertation 802:At the urging of her two closest friends, 518: 504: 40: 9698:Franz Anton Mesmer: Between God and Devil 8927: 8130: 7265:Learn how and when to remove this message 5260:Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria 4061:The psychoanalytic couch of Sigmund Freud 3653:Response of the Paris Faculty of Medicine 3587:Responses to the Commissions' conclusions 3451:The Report(s) of the "Society Commission" 3311:Brief Report to Royal Academy of Sciences 2300:Observations of the frequency of "crises" 1932: 1478:) – which inappropriately "personified" ( 9575:Thomas d'Onglée, François Louis (1785), 9283:, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 8916:The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 8663:, Los Altos, CA: William Kaufman, 1980. 8090:Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 8081:Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 7887:, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 7793:Charcot, J.M. (1893), "The Faith-Cure", 7727:('Traces of Magnetism'), The Hague: n.p. 7642:The Medical World of Early Modern France 6286: 5485:In other words, the initial, apparent, " 5197:In a similar vein, two centuries later, 4486:irritation excited by friction" (i.e., " 4064: 4003: 3964: 3837: 3824: 3736: 3679: 3633:(1784) – while others, such as those of 3598: 3590: 3553: 3507: 3454: 3338:– "which are increased by the truth" ( 3306: 3259: 3192:complete English version, translated by 3174: 3152: 2975: 2884: 2715: 2588:Mesmer's "cures" were never investigated 2563: 2502: 2418: 2365: 2324:, the one time Advocate-General to the 2175: 1952: 1941:The sole remaining example of Mesmer's " 1936: 1834: 1797: 1707: 1631: 1524: 1244: 1232: 1224: 1216: 1163:Charles-Louis-François Andry (1741-1829) 1150:Charles-Louis-François Andry (1741-1829) 1145: 1039: 998: 925: 702: 694: 686: 678: 670: 662: 654: 449:Library and information science software 7911:Craver, C.F. & Darnden, L. (2013), 7140:"Nancy School" (or "Suggestion School") 4984:De Planetarum Influxu in Corpus Humanum 4724:Poissonnier, et al., (1784), p. 1. 4414:The term "Mesmerism" was introduced by 4045:people out of that same hypnotic state. 3228:No evidence to support d'Eslon's claims 3187:Immediate publication and dissemination 1925:" (Kirsch, 1997, etc.) via impressive " 1794:Mesmer's early experiments with magnets 1116:the other." – Antoine Lavoisier (1784). 1103:(1706–1790), the chemist and biologist 9828: 9804: 9714:, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. 9243:, Hamilton, NY: Edmonston Publishing. 9026:, Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale. 9012:, Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale. 8818:The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 8653:, New York, NY: Philosophical Library. 8378:Philosophical Transactions (1683–1775) 7522:, 12(3) (June 2003), pp. 232-233. 6566:Citing Poissonnier (1784), p. 35. 6396: 6394: 6347: 6345: 6073: 6071: 5515:On 5 January 1775, Mesmer had sent an 5170:See, for example, Tsouyopoulos (1988). 3558:Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836) 2180:Yawning (due to behavioural contagion) 1789:Aspects of Mesmer's evolving practices 1177:Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836) 994: 981:exorcisms of the Roman Catholic Church 791:to the Austrian Ambassador to France, 444:Geographic information system software 9801:The Bakken Museum Artifact Collection 9799:Glass Armonica by Benjamin Franklin, 8909: 8528:American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis 7994:, Vol. 11, (2014), pp. 1-8. 7928:Observations sur le Magnétisme Animal 7853:,. Philadelphia, PA: Zieber & Co. 7785:Caullet de Veaumorel, Louis (1785c), 7775:Caullet de Veaumorel, Louis (1785b), 7144:"Paris School" (or "Hysteria School") 7142:, and compare them with those of the 6949:, Vol.1, No.1, (January 1849), p.110. 6629:Thomas d'Onglée (1785), pp. 4-6. 5778:the order, mechanism, and overall set 5619:Namely, at Mesmer, 1781, p. 189. 4733:Godwwin's commentary, at p.xv of the 4113:Mistaken identification of Esdaile's 3691: 2687:(b) from the changes produced by its 2541: 2201:" in a number of domains, including: 1908: 1646:Observations sur le Magnétisme Animal 1287:Although he was made a member of the 9570:, London : Hippolyte Bailliere. 8464:, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 7711:Burdin, C. & Dubois, F. (1841), 7390:: see, also, Founders Online (n.d.). 7236:, as they are easily broken. Please 7196: 6575:Citing Poissonnier (1784), loc. cit. 4679: 4508:role enactment theory of "hypnotism" 4378:Jensen, et al. (2016), pp. 2–5. 4218:Correlation does not imply causation 4136:William Collins Engledue (1813-1858) 3732: 3542:), or, even, "noticeably relieved" ( 2436:, the materialist "mesmerists" used 2238:(d) the detrimental effects of the " 1196:Pierre-Isaac Poissonnier (1720–1798) 939: 819:Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux (1701–1781) 795:(who, in turn, introduced Mesmer to 532:Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism 8912:"Franklin and Mesmer: An encounter" 8891:English translation at Kerr (1790). 8717:Bulletin of the History of Medicine 8436:English translation of Freud (1891) 8417:, Viena: Urban & Schwarzenberg. 7538:, New York: D Appleton and Company. 7048:see Pitres (1891), pp. 97-116. 7002:See Braid, 1842a, pp. 105-149. 6391: 6342: 6068: 5043:Michel-Augustin Thouret (1749-1810) 4164:d'Eslon" what was a clear case of " 4035:people into the hypnotic state, and 3926: 3773:(1996, emphasis added to original). 3493:doivent-ils être admis en Médecine! 1599:Charles-Nicolas d’Eslon (1750–1786) 1468:"fallacy of misplaced concreteness" 1052:", was appointed on 12 March 1784. 969: 644:(1841, emphasis added to original). 13: 9174:Medicina nei Secoli—Arte e Scienza 8781:a translation of Lavoisier (1789). 8310:10.1212/01.wnl.0000216159.60623.2b 7546:, Los Altos, CA: William Kaufman. 6993:See Collyer (1843), pp. 8-20. 6602:Thomas d'Onglée (1785), p. 4. 5699:In 1877, James Braid's colleague, 5083:", 'the healing force of nature'; 4416:Karl Christian Wolfart (1778-1832) 4020:of the Faculty of Medicine at the 3834:The "Franklin" Commissions' legacy 2354:"Mesmerism" vs. "Animal Magnetism" 1845: 1593: 1438:A concept that must not be reified 1295:" anywhere in Europe at any time. 1158:", was appointed on 5 April 1784. 566:(i.e., the "Society Commission"). 14: 9932: 9777: 8804:Applied and Preventive Psychology 8426:, New York, NY: Basic Books, Inc. 6943:Charles Blandford Mansfield, Esq. 4923:Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) 4252:Fallacy of misplaced concreteness 3721:Although Mesmer protested to the 3340:qui s’accroissent par les vérités 3200:Touch, imagination, and imitation 1875:A sample of glass Armonica music. 1547:Johann Joseph Gassner (1727–1779) 1272:universities, transferred to the 948: 768:to what comes after it. one can 707:The execution of Marie Antoinette 8868:Laurence, J.-L. (2002), "1784", 8075:, London: J. & A. Churchill. 7201: 7176: 7167: 7158: 7149: 7132: 7123: 7113: 7104: 7095: 7070: 7061: 7051: 7042: 7033: 7024: 7014: 7005: 6996: 6987: 6978: 6969: 6952: 6932: 6917: 6908: 6899: 6877: 6868: 6855: 6846: 6831: 6828:Shermer (1996), pp. 66, 67. 6822: 6798: 6789: 6780: 6771: 6758: 6745: 6736: 6722: 6713: 6699: 6690: 6681: 6672: 6663: 6654: 6641: 6632: 6623: 6614: 6611:Pattie (1994), pp. 155-156. 6605: 6596: 6587: 6578: 6569: 6560: 6551: 6542: 6533: 6524: 6515: 6506: 6497: 6488: 6478: 6469: 6452: 6443: 6434: 6425: 6416: 6406: 6382: 6373: 6364: 6354: 6329: 6320: 6311: 6302: 6277: 6267: 6254: 6245: 6236: 6227: 6218: 6203: 6190: 6181: 6172: 6163: 6153: 6142: 6132: 6119: 6110: 6098: 6089: 6080: 6059: 6049: 6022: 6013: 6004: 5990: 5979:"), it was never combined with " 5949: 5940: 5931: 5922: 5907: 5894: 5853: 5844: 5831: 5822: 5813: 5804: 5795: 5748: 5711: 5693: 5684: 5675: 5666: 5657: 4818:Elementary Treatise on Chemistry 4213:Convulsionnaires of Saint-Médard 4054:" (Pitres (1891), p. 497). 3550:de Jussieu's "dissenting" report 3330:The importance of "the Sciences" 3136: 3124: 3096: 3084: 3072:, as expounded in Mesmer's 1779 2832:Common misrepresentation of fact 2468:Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze 2287: 2275: 2263: 2251: 2097: 2085: 2073: 1929:" (Topley, 1976, p. 254)". 1883:Problems playing this file? 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Fowler & Co. 8318:, Singapore: World Scientific. 7281:" (Pattie, 1994, p. 179). 7155:Freud (1957/1895), p. 110. 7084:" (Moll, 1890, p. 26) as " 6317:At Bailly, 1784a, pp. 1-3. 5719:medieval demonic exorcism rites 5648: 5639: 5622: 5613: 5600: 5591: 5582: 5567: 5550: 5541: 5532: 5523: 5509: 5500: 5479: 5470: 5461: 5452: 5443: 5440:", (Deleuze, 1813, p. 24). 5430: 5421: 5412: 5403: 5390: 5381: 5352: 5343: 5334: 5325: 5316: 5303: 5294: 5280: 5265: 5252: 5243: 5234: 5225: 5212: 5191: 5182: 5173: 5164: 5143: 5134: 5121: 5112: 5063: 5035: 5025: 5016: 4999: 4989: 4968: 4957: 4947: 4938: 4929: 4907: 4871: 4860: 4851: 4834: 4825: 4810: 4800: 4791: 4781: 4740: 4727: 4718: 4709: 4699: 4673: 4664: 4655: 4645: 4626: 4617: 4608: 4599: 4590: 4581: 4571: 4561: 4540: 4531: 4514: 4493: 4479: 3447:were due to "auto-suggestion". 3432:"Suggestion School" of hypnosis 3064:The issue of d'Eslon vs. Mesmer 2778:uselessly consume her strength. 2432:In order to foster and promote 2371:Ebenezer Sibly (1751 – c. 1799) 2339:l'art d'exciter des convulsions 2153:when given to the same subjects 1903:la théorie du Magnétisme animal 1400:Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777) 1212: 1086:former governor of St. Domingue 699:The execution of King Louis XVI 9488:Journal of Abnormal Psychology 9456:, (Fall 1996), pp. 66–67. 8536:10.1080/00029157.1994.10403109 8062:Le Colosse aux pieds d'argille 7842:Journal of Abnormal Psychology 7506:, Göttingen: V&R unipress. 7493:, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 7416:a translation of Bailly (1800) 7092:" in Moll (1890b), p. 36. 6929:."(emphasis added to original) 6810:Comte de Chastenet de Puységur 5506:See Mesmer (1779), p. 35. 4774:) were guillotined during the 4458: 4449: 4440: 4408: 4399: 4390: 4381: 4372: 4356: 3393: 2601:"cures" attributed to Mesmer. 2538:" (Yeates, 2018, p. 52). 2229:post-traumatic stress disorder 1767:as practised in his own clinic 1724: 1608:, "a disciple of the surgeon 1572:Charles Lafontaine (1803-1892) 1264:, having first studied law at 627:substantial physical existence 1: 9856:History of medicine in France 9762:10.1080/09332480.2016.1156363 9651:, Tomus II, pp. 114-134. 9642:, Tomus II, pp. 114-134. 9463:, New York: Aldine-Atherton. 9405:10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30276-7 9330:10.1080/00043079.2019.1602454 9131:Mesmer, F.A., et al. (1784), 8854:10.1080/0964704X.2019.1589833 8812:10.1016/S0962-1849(05)80012-5 8645:10.1016/j.urolonc.2005.02.003 8406:Hektoen International Journal 8174:, Vol. 3, No. 6 (June 1845).) 7743:10.1016/S0007-0785(88)80051-6 7250:), or an abbreviated title. 7192: 6729:case, the contract signed by 5729:, for example), and possibly 5588:See, also, Landefield (1976). 5578:, No. 21, (Spring 2006). 5291:" (Mesmer, 1779, p. 81). 4596:Gillespie (2009) p. 276. 4012:Around 1885, the neurologist 3871:Tractors, or wooden pegs." – 3418:"Hysteria School" of hypnosis 2880: 1618:Bourbon Restoration in France 1452:illusions de la méthaphysique 1384:the ancient humoral pathology 651:Reasons for the investigation 546:and five scientists from the 16:1784 French scientific bodies 9896:Obsolete scientific theories 9359:Journal of Medical Biography 9345:Journal of Medical Biography 9307:, Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs. 9149:10.1016/0160-9327(88)90165-2 8160:, New York, NY: Basic Books. 8041:Annales du Magnétisme Animal 7871:, Edinburgh: William Wilson. 7734:British Homoeopathic Journal 7568:Journal of Medical Biography 7394:Bailly, J.S. (ed.) (1784b), 7384:Bailly, J.S. (ed.) (1784a), 7304:Chambers's Edinburgh Journal 6148:Stengers (2003, p. 14): 6038:, personal physician to the 5300:Crabtree (1993), p. 16. 5109:", 'the vital impetus', etc. 4772:executed on 12 November 1793 4350: 4093:"upwards and inwards squint" 4000:The "zones" of Albert Pitres 3384: 2377:Similarities and differences 2322:Joseph Michel Antoine Servan 2046:are driven by the wind, and 1772: 1695: 813:Within two weeks Mesmer had 793:the Comte de Mercy-Argenteau 542:Faculté de médecine de Paris 7: 9316:, Paris: Imprimerie royale. 9182:Reviews in American History 9022:Melton, J.G. (2001b) (ed), 9008:Melton, J.G. (2001a) (ed), 8777:, Edinburgh: William Creech 8775:Elements of Chemistry, etc. 8050:BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 8009:de Jussieu, Antoine Laurent 7829:, New York: Brunner/Mazel. 7644:, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 7321:The British Medical Journal 7101:Pitres (1891), p. 101. 7039:Pitres (1891), p. 499. 6984:Younger (1887), p. 69. 6962:, and to the supporters of 6905:Haygarth (1801), p. 4. 6719:Pattie (1994), p. 212. 6308:Bailly (1784a), p. 48. 6178:Pattie (1994), p. 147. 5937:Pollitt (2019), p. 70. 5760:Œconomie Animale (Médecine) 4797:Pattie (1994), p. 142. 4537:Mackay (1841), p. 323. 4292:Randomized controlled trial 4175: 3725:that Caullet de Veaumore's 3519:Frédéric Dubois (1797-1873) 3405:when they were unaware that 3297:The Report's final footnote 3120:The Report's final footnote 1995:je supprimerois les baquets 1808:Maximilian Hell (1720–1792) 1521:Based on natural principles 1456:substantisia les propriétés 1422:, rather than being one of 1072:(and first mayor of Paris) 920:executed on 16 October 1793 886:The increasingly unpopular 560:Royal Society of Medicine ( 548:Royal Academy of Sciences ( 540:Paris Faculty of Medicine ( 10: 9937: 9496:10.1037/0021-843X.88.5.527 9367:10.1177/096777209400200101 9353:10.1177/096777209300100401 9165:Hypnotism (Second Edition) 8967:, London: Richard Bentley. 8757:Social History of Medicine 8332:10.1142/9781860945915_0012 8097:Donaldson, I.M.L. (2014), 7901:, New York, NY: Springer. 7670:Medical Journal and Record 7292:, Philadelphia: H. Perkins 7067:Pitres (1891), p. 98. 6651:." (emphasis in original). 6422:Ogden (2012), p. 143. 6299:Yeates (2018), p. 51. 6209:Braid spoke of these at a 5904:, "correctness of theory". 5737:Maria Theresia von Paradis 5467:Grimm (1880), p. 446. 4921:in 1753, and elected as a 4901:The Phillips Museum of Art 4455:Pattie, 1994, p. 145. 4387:Zabell (2016), p. 32. 4267:Natural history of disease 4132:John Elliotson (1791-1868) 4123: 3401:when the subjects believed 3372: 2792:It may be there seen that 2161:(f) Rich female patients ( 1683:), with the comment that, 1681:en séduisant l’imagination 1677:des choses extraordinaires 1003:Baron de Breteuil (c.1787) 882:Festering political issues 577:" example of a systematic 562:Société Royale de Médecine 9901:Obsolete medical theories 9275:10.1080/00207140490914207 9223:De Imperio Solis ac Lunae 9209:Early American Literature 9203:, London: John Churchill. 9004:10.1080/00207140208410108 8990:10.1080/00207148508406642 8954:10.1080/00207146408409107 8878:10.1080/00207140208410107 8795:10.1080/00207140208410114 8434:, London: Hogarth Press: 8399:10.1080/00207140208410109 8349:, London: Penguin Books. 8132:10.1080/00033795500200295 7999:de Borie, Jean-Francois, 7759:The Mississippi Quarterly 7627:, London: Grant Richards. 7582:, London: John Churchill. 7435:10.1080/00207140208410110 6326:Bailly, 1784a, p. 3. 5610:, at Paulet, p. 117. 5099:", 'the will to health'; 5060:) (Thouret, 1784, p.xxv). 4715:See also: Gregory (2015). 4524:" such as, for example, " 4433:". 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(1843), 7863:, London: Henry Renshaw. 7809:Charcot, J.-M., (1897), 7520:BMJ Quality & Safety 6731:the Marquis de Lafayette 5772:Vol XI, pp. 360-366 4913:Franklin -- awarded the 4277:Placebo-controlled study 4119:magnetization-by-contact 3912:magnetization-by-contact 3900:magnetization-by-contact 3892:magnetization-by-contact 3884:magnetization-by-contact 3779:The detailed studies of 3643:some forty years earlier 3635:Charles Joseph Devillers 2242:" on society as a whole. 900:storming of the Bastille 9891:Concepts in metaphysics 9861:French medical research 9679:Winter, George (1801), 9517:Cultural Studies Review 9167:, London: Walter Scott. 8864:, Boston, MA: Springer. 7557:Bonnefoy, J.B. (1784), 7445:, London: H. Baillière. 7240:by replacing them with 7232:Knowledge's style guide 6939:Morrison, Richard James 6460:Claude Louis Berthollet 5741:(iii) "a derivation of 5487:from a first impression 5149:In his post-Commission 5091:", 'the will to live'; 5075:vis conservatrix naturæ 4039:zones hypno-frénatrices 3986:John Campbell Colquhoun 3686:Aphorismes of M. Mesmer 3684:Caullet de Veaumorel's 3624:Michel-Augustin Thouret 3603:Michel-Augustin Thouret 3149:The Commission's report 2980:Man wearing a blindfold 2707:exclusively concentrate 2477:The "animal magnetists" 1861:(William Zeitler, 2003) 1628:Association with Mesmer 1448:la langue de convention 1326:Positioner of a concept 1278:Medicinae Doctor (M.D.) 1061:Joseph-Ignace Guillotin 1044:Benjamin Franklin, 1778 815:rescinded his agreement 9688:Wolfart, K.C. (1814), 9100:Mesmer, F.A. (1784b), 9091:Mesmer, F.A. (1784a), 8883:Lavoisier, A. (1789), 8582:Instruments of Science 8462:A History of Hypnotism 8339:Psychological Medicine 7849:Collyer, R.H. 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(2004), 7542:Bloch, George (1980), 6768:": 1785b, p. 14). 5999:community of sensation 5957:state dependent memory 5630:ranged in several rows 5606:For instance, see his 5249:Hilgard (1980), p.xvi. 4768:executed on 8 May 1794 4339:Vis medicatrix naturae 4208:Construct (philosophy) 4070: 4022:University of Bordeaux 4009: 3976: 3910:remnants of d'Eslon's 3843: 3830: 3810:" procedures on both " 3742: 3688: 3604: 3596: 3559: 3513: 3512:Frédéric Dubois (1849) 3462: 3314: 3265: 3183: 3160: 2981: 2890: 2724: 2674:") could be observed: 2569: 2510: 2424: 2373: 2181: 1962: 1950: 1850: 1840: 1803: 1756:François Amédée Doppet 1717: 1641: 1530: 1408:John Brown (1735–1788) 1386:with its doctrines of 1254: 1242: 1230: 1222: 1151: 1045: 1004: 785:Chancellor von Kaunitz 737:prevailing at the time 708: 700: 692: 684: 676: 675:Chancellor von Kaunitz 668: 660: 350:Inferential statistics 296:Descriptive statistics 243:Human subject research 9876:Design of experiments 9748:, London: E.W. Allen. 9725:Yeates, L.B. (2013), 9504:, Amsterdam, Rodopi. 9427:10.1176/ajp.116.5.463 9397:The Lancet Psychiatry 9384:10.1093/jhmas/1.4.527 9239:Pattie, F.A. (1994), 9190:10.1353/rah.2018.0086 9118:Mesmer, F.A. (1799), 9068:Mesmer, F.A. (1781), 9053:Mesmer, F.A. (1779), 8618:Haygarth, J. (1801), 8454:History of Psychology 8139:Eden, Jerome (1974), 7959:d'Eslon, C. (1784c), 7950:d'Eslon, C. (1784b), 7883:Crabtree, A. (1993). 7875:Crabtree, A. (1988), 7484:, Paris: Octave Doin. 7480:Bernheim, H. (1888), 6795:Mesmer, 1784a; 1784b. 6019:See Donaldson (2006). 5080:vis medicatrix naturæ 4692:Catholic Encyclopedia 4681:Pace, Edward Aloysius 4322:Spurious relationship 4223:Design of experiments 4203:Clinical study design 4183:Abstract and concrete 4068: 4007: 3968: 3933:Robert Hanham Collyer 3882:Four vestiges of the 3841: 3828: 3740: 3683: 3602: 3594: 3557: 3511: 3458: 3310: 3263: 3255:French First Republic 3178: 3156: 2979: 2888: 2719: 2636:scientific revolution 2621:presenting conditions 2567: 2506: 2454:terrestrial magnetism 2422: 2369: 2179: 2120:over an extended time 1956: 1940: 1849: 1838: 1801: 1711: 1635: 1528: 1442:It is clear from his 1350:terrestrial magnetism 1334:" of an overarching " 1260:(1734–1815), born in 1248: 1236: 1228: 1220: 1149: 1043: 1036:"Franklin Commission" 1009:the Baron de Breteuil 1002: 964:presenting conditions 926:Professional tensions 914:, and the sister of 912:Empress Maria Theresa 706: 698: 690: 682: 674: 666: 659:King Louis XVI (1776) 658: 550:Académie des sciences 134:Philosophical schools 9743:Younger, D. (1887), 9710:Yapko, M.D. (1994), 9668:, Paris: A. Legrand. 9666:Mesmer et son Secret 9664:Vinchon, J. (1936), 9660:, London: J. Nourse. 9584:Thouret, M. (1784), 9500:Steinke, H. (2005), 9254:Paulet, Jean-Jacques 8910:Lopez, C.A. (1993). 8751:10.1093/jhmas/jrq004 8688:10.1093/jrma/72.1.97 8649:Hesse, M.B. (1961), 8622:, Bath: R. Crutwell. 8497:, London: J. Johnson 8372:Franklin B. (1758), 8347:Hypnotism: A History 8345:Forrest, D. (1999), 8273:Faflack, J. (2009), 7981:Darnton, R. (1968), 7926:d'Eslon, C. (1780), 7725:Traces du magnétisme 7683:, London: Edward Dod 7238:improve this article 6808:and his brother the 5916:action at a distance 5409:See d'Eslon (1784a). 5129:contractive capacity 5097:Wille zur Gesundheit 4522:behavioral contagion 3546:) of their ailment. 3544:notablement soulagés 3423:Salpêtrière hospital 2846:objectively verified 2470:(1814), p. 233. 2390:magnetismus animalis 2221:behavioral contagion 2167:de femmes indigentes 2143:action at a distance 2124:mouvemens convulsifs 1859:Music of the Spheres 1785:), and renal colic. 1462:", in the manner of 1320:Grand Duchy of Baden 1274:University of Vienna 1142:"Society Commission" 898:had broken out. The 797:Jean-Baptiste Le Roy 683:Princess of Lamballe 459:Reference management 409:Scientific modelling 151:Critical rationalism 9851:History of medicine 9482:, London: G. Jones. 8541:Gray, L.C. 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(1851), 7011:See Braid (1843b). 6886:Wellcome Galleries 6198:Plan d'Experiemces 5969:sleep-waking state 5690:Ibid., p. 10. 5374:conduct unbecoming 5054:nouveauté piquante 4944:See Sutton (1981). 4334:Therapeutic effect 4317:Signs and symptoms 4302:Scientific control 4282:Protocol (science) 4193:Blinded experiment 4100:Hippolyte Bernheim 4071: 4010: 3977: 3969:A Phreno-Magnetist 3944:in December 1841. 3898:of both d'Eslon's 3844: 3831: 3743: 3692:d'Eslon's response 3689: 3605: 3597: 3560: 3514: 3463: 3427:Hippolyte Bernheim 3425:), and his rival, 3315: 3313:(4 September 1784) 3266: 3184: 3161: 2982: 2896:sources of fallacy 2891: 2725: 2693:l’économie animale 2570: 2542:The investigations 2511: 2508:James Braid (1854) 2425: 2374: 2314:and those of the " 2182: 1963: 1951: 1909:The glass armonica 1851: 1841: 1804: 1783:une fièvre maligne 1718: 1642: 1531: 1488:principe de action 1258:Franz Anton Mesmer 1255: 1243: 1231: 1223: 1156:Society Commission 1152: 1046: 1015:at the command of 1005: 709: 701: 693: 685: 677: 669: 661: 433:Tools and software 377:Secondary research 301:Discourse analysis 9881:Benjamin Franklin 9866:Scientific method 9720:978-0-671-87431-5 9706:978-0-135-77379-6 9602:978-0-398-01928-0 9510:978-9-042-01852-5 9469:978-0-202-25070-0 9434:American heritage 9289:978-0-300-08204-3 9279:Pick, D. 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