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Mesmer

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Mes·mer  (mzmr, ms-), Franz or Friedrich Anton 1734-1815.
Austrian physician who sought to treat disease through animal magnetism, an early therapeutic application of hypnotism.
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Noun1.MesmerMesmer - Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
Franz Anton Mesmer, Friedrich Anton Mesmer


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The author goes into the question of the close association of the then Edgar Caswall with Mesmer in Paris.
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Having heard us to an end, the Count proceeded to relate a few anecdotes, which rendered it evident that prototypes of Gall and Spurzheim had flourished and faded in Egypt so long ago as to have been nearly forgotten, and that the manoeuvres of Mesmer were really very contemptible tricks when put in collation with the positive miracles of the Theban savans, who created lice and a great many other similar things.
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