mesmerism

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Ada’s enthusiasms nonetheless refused to confine themselves to mesmerism and galvanized frogs’ legs.

From New York Times

A third category of atheism makes a religion out of science through a variety of intellectual fashions such as evolutionary humanism, mesmerism, dialectical materialism and transhumanism.

From Washington Post

When Dods offered to teach mesmerism to his audiences, he was offering to let them in on a powerful secret.

From New York Times

His face alight with the excitement of the moment, Liston announced, “This Yankee dodge, gentlemen, beats mesmerism hollow!”

From Scientific American

In Paris in the early 1780s, Franz Anton Mesmer was attracting attention for his showy demonstrations of “mesmerism,” or what would later be called hypnotism.

From New York Times