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
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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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Versuch die scheinbare Magie des thierischen Magnetismus aus physiologischen und psychischen Gesezen zu erklären
C. A. Eschenmayer, Karl Adolf von Eschenmayer
1816German
Victorian Literary Mesmerism
Catherine Wynne, Martin Willis
2006
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Animal magnetism
Benjamin Franklin, Académie nationale de médecine
1837
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L'Hermès
L'Hermès : journal du magnétisme animale / par une Sociét é de Médecins
1826French
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Lettre d'un Anglois a un François, sur la découverte du magnétisme animal, et observations sure cette lettre
[Gerardin, Sébastian]
1784French
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"Sulfonal-Bayer" the new hypnotic of Professor Baumann & Kast
E. Baumann
1888
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A series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power and practical mental science
William Walker Atkinson
1901
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Animal Magnetism: Physiological Observation
Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain
1880
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Animal magnetism, and homoeopathy : with notes illustrative of the influence of the mind on the body
Edwin Lee
1843
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Clinical observations on hydrate of chloral as a hypnotic in typhus
James Burn Russell
1870
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Human magnetism
Henry Shipton Drayton
1889
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Hypnotic therapeutics
James Braid
1853
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Hypnotism
Foveau de Courmelles Dr
1891
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Insanity, its causes, prevention, and cure : including apoplexy, epilepsy, and congestion of the brain
Joseph Williams
1852
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Instantaneous personal magnetism debunked
Ben Moore
1929
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Iwein, der ritter mit dem löwen
Hartmann von Aue
1891
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Mesmerism and media
1855
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Mesmerism, with Hints for Beginners
John James
1886
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Note on the use of paraldehyde in delirium and insomnia
Edward Mansel Sympson
1889
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Spenser's minor poems
Edmund Spenser
1910
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The Croonian lectures on some points connected with sleep, sleeplessness, and hypnotics
J. B. Bradbury
1899
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The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatism, pleurisy, some gouty affections, &c. &c
Benjamin Douglas Perkins
1798
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The mighty curative powers of mesmerism
Thomas Capern
1851
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The use of morphine and other strong sedatives in gynaecological practice
Hunter Robb
1892