Animal Magnetism and Hypnotism (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Animal Magnetism and Hypnotism (Classic Reprint) written by Lewis Henry Steiner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Animal Magnetism and Hypnotism The Faculty of Medicine taking the connection of Des lon - one of its members - with Mesmer, into consideration, suspended him for one year from its roll, with prospective expulsion if he should not disavow his published observa tions on animal magnetlsm. The Faculty, however, ih jured itself and benefitted Mesmer, by pronouncing him a charlatan and impostor without giving him, what he had asked, an examination. Deslon had been punished for as sociating with a charlatan, but the latter character was not proven upon Mesmer. In the next Spring, Mesmer an nounced his intention of leaving France, which was pro tested against not only by his infatuated patients, but even by marie-antoinette. The French government offered to constitute a comm1ss1on for an examination of the subject, but on afterwards modifying the proposition, so as to dis pense with the examination, but offering him an annuity of livres, and livres to pay for the rent of a house, in which he should instruct persons, three to be named by the government, in the principles of his discove ry, Mesmer declined, with a number of ridiculous reasons for non-acceptance, and among these the fact that he wanted territorial property rather than money. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.