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A passionate defence of Mesmerism, a kind of hypnosis based on the theory of animal magnetism, first published in 1840 by one of its most prominent nineteenth-century practitioners, a friend of Dickens. Townshend includes eye-witness accounts of hypnotic experiments, both from the subject’s and the …
Facts in Mesmerism, with Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into It
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Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), poet and collector, was a well-connected friend of Robert Southey and Charles Dickens. He became fascinated with Mesmerism while in Germany and went on to popularise it in England. This book, first published in 1840, was his passionate defence of Mesmerism. Developed in the late eighteenth century by Franz Mesmer, Mesmerism was a kind of hypnosis based on the theory of animal magnetism. With its spiritual associations and uncanny effects, it was an extremel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108025898 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1108025897 |
| Author: | Chauncy Hare Townshend |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 598 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 750g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 34mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge |
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