The whole secret of cures alleged to have been wrought by animal magnetism or mesmerism, may be explained by mental influence; and so likewise those affected by metallic tractors, anodyne necklaces, and a host of other devices.
The field is occupied largely by propagandists of one or another of the extravagant forms of animal magnetism .
He originated the phrase "Animal Magnetism" and was, though he did not know it, the originator of hypnotism; until well within our own time mesmerism was the accepted name for this whole complex group of phenomena.
Phrenology, mind reading, animal magnetism, clairvoyance, all had their prophets.
Haggarth, an eminent physician and philosopher, recollecting the development ofanimal magnetism at Paris, wrote to Dr.
This gentleman, however, was a believer in animal magnetism, and was therefore inclined to attribute it to that cause.
In modern times especially the phenomena of animal magnetism have given, even in experience, a lively and visible confirmation of the underlying unity of soul, and of the power of its "ideality.
About the same date his brother Karl published an essay on Animal Magnetism.
Kieser's Tellurismus is, according to Schopenhauer, "the fullest and most thorough text-book of Animal Magnetism.
I had come across him in the course of some amateur investigations into the phenomena of animal magnetism.
My motive in so doing, at least the only motive I now need speak of, was the recollection of something I once had read about the extent to which your contemporaries had cultivated the subject of animal magnetism.
Now of mesmerism, animal magnetism, and its kindred, odylism, we have seen that we have no reliable facts.
They found no proof of the existence of a fluid such as animal magnetism, and thought that all that was not imposture could be accounted for by the power of imagination.
We are now going to see the astronomer, the savant, the man of letters, struggling against passions of every kind, excited by the famous question of animal magnetism.
Mesmer said: "Animal magnetism may be accumulated, concentrated, transported, without the aid of any intermediate body.
Animal magnetism, pertaining to organized beings, acts upon their corresponding but higher molecules in the same general way.
The magnet and artificial electricity have, with respect to disease, properties common to a host of other agents presented to us by nature, and if the use of these has been attended by useful results, they are due to animal magnetism.
It causes in human bodies properties analogous to those of the magnet, for which reason it is called 'Animal Magnetism'.
If it had not been for Mesmer and his "Animal Magnetism", we would never have had "hypnotism" and all our learned societies for the study of it.
The book is called "Le Magnetism Animal" (Animal Magnetism), and its authors are Messrs.
The system of Animal Magnetism; its practices; a critical view 189 V.
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