mesmerism

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Neither astrology nor Mesmerism nor phrenology ever approached this apogee of combined delusion and deception.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2019

Mesmerism, as the stage hypnotists presented it, was the hidden basis of all deceptive arts.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2018

Mesmerism, galvanism, electricity, steam engines, republicanism and commercial cabbage farming all swim into view, but in colours and combinations that you will not quite have seen before.

From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012

Mental Healers narrates the life-history, describes the practices of three such doctor-priests—the discoverers of Mesmerism, Christian Science, Psychoanalysis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mesmerism was indirectly the means of bringing Miss Martineau into an intimate acquaintance with a gentleman, who soon began to exert a decisive influence upon the most important of her opinions.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 6: Harriet Martineau by Morley, John