1779 MESMER, Franz Anton (1734 – 1815)
Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal.
Mesmer promoted his system of treatment, based on his confused doctrine of a universal magnetic fluid influencing tides and men alike, with books and great personal showmanship. His treatment became such a popular hea…
GMN 4992.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6500
1784 LAVOISIER, Antoine Laurent de (1743 – 1794); FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
Rapport des commissaires chargés par le roi, de l’examen du magnétisme animal. Edited by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.
Responding to Mesmer’s growing notoriety, the Medical Faculty of Paris became alarmed, and urged the King to appoint a blue-ribbon committee of inquiry. The committee included Benjamin Franklin, Antoine Laurent Lavois…
GMN 4992.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6502
1843 –1856 ELLIOTSON, John (1791 – 1868); ESDAILE, James (1808 – 1859)
The Zoist: A journal of cerebral physiology & mesmerism, and their applications to human welfare. Edited by John Elliotson. 13 vols.
The most comprehensive source about British mesmerism of the period, and an invaluable reference for contemporary ideas and developments not only in mesmerism (hypnosis) but also in phrenology, neurology and psychiatr…
GMN 9256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11438
1845 BRIERRE DE BOISMONT, Alexandre-Jacques-François (Brière de Boismont) (1797 – 1881)
Des hallucinations, ou histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme.
This study underwent at least three editions in French and also appeared in several English translations, the first of which appears to have been translated anonymously and publlished in Philadelphia in 1853 from the …
GMN 10459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12652
1866 DUREAU, Alexis (1831 – 1904)
Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.
Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.
GMN 7378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9550
1970 TINTEROW, Maurice M.
Foundations of hypnosis, from Mesmer to Freud.
Readings, including translations, from classic texts, with commentary.
GMN 5019.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6666
1980 MESMER, Franz Anton (1734 – 1815); BLOCH, George J.
Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.
Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...à …
GMN 9147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11326
1983 BOUSFIELD, Wendy
Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.
GMN 8612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10789
1986 DARNTON, Robert Choate (1939 – )
Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.
GMN 7381 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9553
1988 CRABTREE, Adam
Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.
Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.
GMN 5019.21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6712
1999 CRABTREE, Adam
From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.
GMN 7379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9551
2007 SCHLUN, Betsy van
Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.
GMN 11171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13368
