Tradition 26 of 33
Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis
Animal magnetism, mesmerism, suggestion, and historical borders between trance science and occult practice.
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- Books
- 1,831
- Earliest
- 1242
- to 2026
- Read free
- 57%
- 1,044 with public full text
- With covers
- 63%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,758
- Metadata match47
- Query match24
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- hypnotism577
- animal magnetism516
- Mesmerism395
- Magnétisme animal340
- Hypnosis335
- Mesmerismus116
- Hypnose110
- Therapeutic use100
- History98
- Parapsychology71
- Suggestive Therapeutics67
- Psychology66
- Magnetic healing65
- Sleepwalking63
- Electronic books54
- Social Sciences54
- Magnétisme51
- Spiritualism51
- Early works to 180048
- Art43
- Philosophy43
- Somnambulism42
- Arts and Humanities40
- Fiction39
Top languages
- French754 · 41%
- English639 · 35%
- German281 · 15%
- Italian40 · 2%
- NOT23 · 1%
Notable authors
All authors- Franz Anton Mesmer47 in this tradition48 books
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh36 in this tradition71 books
- University of Glasgow. Library18 in this tradition71 books
- Edgar Allan Poe18 in this tradition24 books
- Jules Du Potet de Sennevoy13 in this tradition15 books
- Nicolas Bergasse13 books
- James Braid12 books
- Karl Freiherr von Reichenbach12 books
- France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal10 books
- James Esdaile10 books
- Benjamin Franklin9 in this tradition15 books
- Joseph Philippe François Deleuze9 in this tradition10 books
1,831 books
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Hypnotism
Fredrik Johan Bjo rnstro m, Fredrik Johan Björnström, Harry Houdini Collection DLC, Nils Posse
1889
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Notes and studies in the philosophy of animal magnetism and spiritualism
John Ashburner, John. [from old catalog] Ashburner
1867
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Sleep-walking and hypnotism
Daniel Hack Tuke
1884
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Account of a case of successful amputation of the thigh, during the mesmeric state, without the knowledge of the patient
W. Squire Ward, William Topham
1842
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Mesmerism: its pretensions as a science physiologically considered
J. Allison
1844
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Polémica religioso-frenolójico-magnética
Mariano Cubí y Soler
1848Spanish
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Le fétichisme dans l'amour
Alfred Binet
1891French
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Hypnotism: How it is Done; Its Uses and Dangers
James Richard Cocke, James James Richard Cocke
1894
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False accusation in the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society against a poor man because he suffered no pain while his leg was amputated in the mesmeric coma
John Elliotson
1851
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Hypnotism as a therapeutic agent
William Lee Howard, Virginia State Medical Society
1893
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Private instructions in the science and art of organic magnetism
Chandos Leigh Hunt Wallace
1885
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La prima musa Clio
George Baldwin, Cesare Avena de Valdiere
1802
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The secret book of the black arts
Henry T. Williams, Harold Jantz Collection. NcD
1878
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Psycho-therapeutics
C. Lloyd Tuckey
1889
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The principle of health transferable; or, how to obtain immediate relief from pain, and a speedy cure in disease. Addressed to all who are sick and suffering
George H. Barth
1848
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Hypnotism
Robert William Felkin, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1890
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Magic, witchcraft, animal magnetism, hypnotism and electro-biology : being a digest of the latest views of the author on these subjects
James Braid, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
1852
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Von der Dämonologie zum Unbewussten
Maren Sziede, Helmut Zander
2014German
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A world of wonders, or, Divers developments, showing the thorough triumph of animal magnetism in New England
Joel R. Peabody, David Claypoole Johnston
1838
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Mental magic
Thomas F.S.A Welton, University of Glasgow. Library, Thomas Welton
1884
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Mesmerism, spiritualism, &c., historically & scientifically considered
William Benjamin Carpenter
1877
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Neurypnology ; or, the rationale of nervous sleep considered in relation to animal magnetism or mesmerism and illustrated by numerous cases of its successful application in the relief and cure of disease
James Braid, Arthur Edward Waite
1899
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A letter to Col. Wm. L. Stone of New York on the facts related in his letter to Dr. Brigham, and a plain refutation of Durant's exposition of animal magnetism, &c
Charles Poyen, Harry Houdini Collection DLC
1837
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Early magnetism in its higher relations to humanity, as veiled in the poets and the prophets
Thomas South
1846