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Franz Anton Mesmer
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Franz Anton Mesmer
An Austrian physician (1734-1815) who lived in France and developed the pseudoscientific doctrine of animal magnetism, a form of hypnosis. Mesmer’s theories and methods were discredited by the medical practitioners of his time.
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Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) studied medicine at the University of Vienna, but after qualifying became the object of scorn and derision when he set off on his revolutionary path.
Memerism dismissed; In association with the NHS by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Originally, hypnosis was called Mesmerism named after Franz Mesmer.
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In the late 1700''s, a man named Franz Mesmer became the first Western scientist to become involved with hypnosis and started researching an effect called "animal magnetism" or "mesmerism," which is a word still used today.
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