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mesmerism

Former term for hypnosis, after Austrian physician Friedrich Mesmer.


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Mesmerism would assert, not only that you and the child influenced each other, but that--in spite of the distance--you both influenced
What is the secret mesmerism which friendship possesses, and under the operation of which a person ordinarily sluggish, or cold, or timid, becomes wise, active, and resolute, in another's behalf?
Jour printer by trade; do a little in patent medi- cines; theater-actor -- tragedy, you know; take a turn to mesmerism and phrenology when there's a chance; teach singing-geography school for a change; sling a lecture sometimes -- oh, I do lots of things -- most anything that comes handy, so it ain't work.
 
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