Author: Thomas BucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mesmerism
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Handbook of Mesmerism
Author: Thomas BucklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mesmerism
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Hand-book of Mesmerism ...
Author: Thomas BucklandThe Hand-book of Mesmerism, for the Guidance and Instruction of All Persons who Desire to Practice Mesmerism ... Third Edition
Author: Thomas BUCKLAND (Secretary to the Mesmeric Infirmary.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Mesmerism
Author: Franz Anton MesmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Credulity
Author: Emily OgdenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022653247X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control, spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States. Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism’s spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s circle and ignited the nineteenth-century equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in secularizing America.
The Handbook of Vital Magnetism, Or Mesmerism ... With Numerous Experiments, Etc
Author: MESMERIST'S MANUAL OF PHENOMENA AND PRACTICE
Author: GEORGE. BARTHPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033377789
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mesmerized
Author: Alison WinterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226902197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Invitation to the Seance1: Discovery of the Island of Mesmeria 2: Animal Magnetism Comes to London 3: Experimental Subjects as Scientific Instruments 4: Carnival, Chapel, and Pantomime 5: The Peripatetic Power of the "New Science" 6: Consultations, Conversaziones, and Institutions 7: The Invention of Anesthesia and the Redefinition of Pain 8: Colonizing Sensations in Victorian India9: Emanations from the Sickroom 10: The Mesmeric Cure of Souls 11: Expertise, Common Sense, and the Territories of Science 12: The Social Body and the Invention of Consensus Conclusion: The Day after the Feast Notes Bibliography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Hand-book of curative mesmerism [by D. Pae].
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Author: Hand-BookMesmerism: the Discovery of Animal Magnetism
Author: Franz MesmerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523292363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
In 1779, Franz Anton Mesmer wrote an 88-page book, Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal, to which he appended his famous 27 Propositions. While undertaking research, G.F. Frankau obtained, on loan from a private library, an original edition of Mesmer's Mémoire sur la découverte de Magnétism Animal. Realising its medico-historical importance and tempted by a layman's vanity to undertake the translation himself, he eventually decided that the task could only be accomplished by an expert; He secured the services of Captain V. R. Myers of the Berlitz School of Languages. Myer's rendering of the eighteenth-century French is highly praiseworthy. The adjective "mesmeric", the substantive "mesmerism", and the verb to "mesmerise" have not changed their meanings since they first became current-posterity's unique tribute to a unique man.