Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

The White Cat

Gelett Burgess, Will Grefé

Date unknown

Letters on animal magnetism

Crumpe, Harry Houdini Collection

1845

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

George Miller Beard

1882

How to thought-read

James Coates

1893

Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men

John William Harris

1901

Les révélations d'un magnétiseur : trucs ingénieux employés au théâtre pour obtenir les phénomènes de la transmission de pensée, du magnétisme et de l'hypnotisme

Émile Chautard, Harry Houdini Collection

1904·French

A philosophical treatise of a somnambule upon God: man: & nature

1794

Subtle Energies in Therapy, Spirituality, Arts, and Politics : 1800–Present

2025

How to magnetize, or, Magnetism and clairvoyance : a practical treatise on the choice, management, and capabilities of subjects, with instructions on the method of procedures

Harry Houdini Collection, James Victor Wilson

1878

Allgemeine Erläuterung über den Magnetismus und den Somnambulismus

Franz Anton Mesmer

1815·German

Mesmerismus, oder, System der Wechselwirkungen

Franz Anton Mesmer, Karl Christian Wolfart

1814·German

Statuvolism, or, Artificial somnambulism, hitherto called mesmerism or animal magnetism : containing a brief historical survey of Mesmer's operations and the examination of the same by the French commissioners : phreno-somnambulism, or, the exposition of phreno-magnetism and neurology : a new view and division of the phrenological organs into functions, with descriptions of their nature and qualities, etc., in the senses and faculties, and a full and accurate description of the various phenomena belonging to this state : including its division into two distinct conditions, viz., the waking and sleeping, with practical instructions how to enter and awake from either : the identity of these conditions with other states and mysteries, together with an account of several obstetrical cases delivered while in this state : the proper method of preparing subjects for surgical operations, their management during and after the same, and the latest and best method of curing diseases, etc., in those persons who are in that condition

Wm. Baker Fahnestock, Harry Houdini Collection

1871

Kennedy Bros.' handbook on mesmerism and hypnotism : comprising a large amount of valuable information to the unlearned in this mysterious art, describing its origin, benefits to be derived from it, rules to be observed, how to mesmerize and hypnotize.

Harry Houdini Collection

1883

Hypnotism, mesmerism and the new witchcraft

Ernest Abraham Hart

1893

Psychology; or the science of the soul : considered pshysiologically and philosophically. With an appendix, containing notes of mesmeric and physical experience

Joseph W Haddock, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection

1850

Rapport confidentiel sur le magnétisme animal et sur la conduite récente de l'Académie royale de médecine

le R.P Scobardi, Simon Mialle, Ch B, Académie Nationale de Médecine

1839·French

Essai sur la théorie du somnambulisme magnétique

Tardy de Montravel, Alice A. Tardy de Montravel

1785·French

La vision, contenant l'explication de l'écrit intitulé: Traces du magnétisme, et la théorie des vrais sages

Jacques Cambry

1784·French

Réflexions préliminaires, a l'occasion de la piece intitulée, Les docteurs modernes [by P.Y. Barré and J.B. Radet], jouée sur le Théâtre Italien, le seize novembre 1784

M. d' Eprémesnil, Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil, Jean-Baptiste Radet

1784·French

Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920

Shane McCorristine

2012

Facts in mesmerism or animal magnetism : with reasons for a dispassionate inquiry into it

Harry Houdini Collection, Chauncy Hare Townshend

1841

Telepathy and the subliminal self : an account of recent investigations regarding hypnotism, automatism, dreams, phantasms, and related phenomena

Harry Houdini Collection, R. Osgood Mason

1897

Instantaneous Personal Magnetism

Edmund Shaftesbury, Webster] [Edgerly

1926

Mesmerism true, mesmerism false : a critical examination of the facts, claims, and pretensions of animal magnetism

John Forbes, Harry Houdini Collection

1845