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The study of trance, muscle-reading and allied nervous phenomena in Europe and America

with a letter on the moral character of trance subjects, and a defence of Dr. Charcot

by George M. Beard & Royal College of Surgeons of England

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

The Study of Trance, Muscle-Reading and Allied Nervous Phenomena in Europe and America. New York, 1882.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Parapsychology and psychical research and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

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  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Parapsychology”. Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

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1882-01-01T00:00:00ZEnglishPublic digitized item

with a letter on the moral character of trance subjects, and a defence of Dr. Charcot

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1882New York : [s.n.]; Sine nomineEnglishPublic

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  • Contributing institution: Royal College of Surgeons of England
  • Digitization sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
  • 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.
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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openlibrary-work:OL17674375W
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