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Animal intelligence

The Philosopy of Sleep

Also known as Alterations of personality; Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State

by George John Romanes, Alfred Binet, John Elliotson, James Esdaile & Robert Macnish

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, French
  • Content type: Primary source

706 p. in various pagings ; 24 cm. -- Reprint of works previously published 1834-1846 Includes bibliographical references and index

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, and Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Hypnotism” and “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “mesmeric” in the alternative title, “Hypnotism” in the subject metadata, “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • Mesmerism· via Internet Archive
    • Mesmerism· via Open Library
    • Hypnotism· via Open Library
    • mesmeric· in alternative title
    • Hypnotism· in subject
    • Mesmerism· in subject
  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Consciousness”. Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the subject metadata.

    • Consciousness· via Internet Archive
    • Consciousness· via Open Library
    • Consciousness· in subject
  • Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Animism”.

    • Animism· via Open Library

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Editions

Open Library reports 10 editions; 5 cataloged here.

Numerous cases of surgical operations without pain in the mesmeric state : with remarks upon the opposition of many members of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society and others to the reception of the inestimable blessings of mesmerism

HathiTrust catalog record

1843Public view

HathiTrust catalog record

1888Public view

Numerous Cases of Surgical Operations Without Pain in the Mesmeric State: Mesmerism in India

June 30, 1977University Publications of AmericaEnglish
  • 9780313269349
  • 0313269343
No ebook

Subjects

37 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Internet Archive
  • Contributing institution: University of Michigan
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 10 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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