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Mesmer   /mˈɛzmər/   Listen
Mesmer

noun
1.
Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815).  Synonyms: Franz Anton Mesmer, Friedrich Anton Mesmer.



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"Mesmer" Quotes from Famous Books



... way connected with practical science, the "Marie Antoinette" made a successful voyage to Chantilly. The date of another invention, if, indeed, it deserves so respectable a title, is also fixed by this royal visit. Mesmer had recently begun to astonish or bewilder the Parisians with his theory of animal magnetism; and Gustavus spent some time in discussing the question with him, and seems for a moment to have flattered himself that he comprehended ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge

... a convinced disciple of Mesmer, asks for a subject, and finds one in the hall. A young artist named Marius presents himself. Mr. Harmington makes him perform all sorts of extravagant acts, accompanied with a continuous round of pantomimes that are rendered the more striking by the supposed state of somnipathy of the subject. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various

... friend—this doctor," said Doctor Lebrun parenthetically, "is an old man persecuted for his opinions since Mesmer's time by all the faculty; he is seventy or seventy-two years of age, and his name is Bouvard. At the present day he is the patriarchal representative of the theory of animal magnetism. This good man regards me as a son; I owe my training to him.—Well, this ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac



Words linked to "Mesmer" :   physician, doctor, md, Dr., mesmerize, mesmerise, medico, doc, Friedrich Anton Mesmer



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