Charles Poyen
19th-century French hypnotist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles Poyen (died 1844)[1] was a French mesmerist or magnetizer (a practitioner of a practice that would later inspire hypnotism).[2] Mesmerism was named after Franz Anton Mesmer, a German physician who argued in 1779 for the existence of a fluid that fills space and through which bodies could influence each other, a force he called animal magnetism.[3]