Franz Mesmer

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Franz Mesmer
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Franz Anton Mesmer (23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German physician with an interest in astronomy.

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He had a theory that there was a natural transfer of energy between all animated and inanimate objects. He called this animal magnetism, sometimes later referred to as mesmerism.[1] The theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850, and continued to have some influence until the end of the century.[2] In 1843 the Scottish physician James Braid proposed the term hypnosis for 'animal magnetism'. Today this is the usual term for mesmerism.

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