1666 GREATRAKES, Valentine [GREATOREX] (1629 – 1683)
A brief account of Mr Valentine Greatrakes, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. Written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq., 1666.
The earliest scientific account, by a practitioner, and corroborated by witnesses, of healing by the “laying-on of hands”. Greatrakes became known as “the Irish stroker” because of his method of healing by stroking th…
GMN 4992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6496
1680 KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602 – 1680)
Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis.
Includes the first recorded experiment in hypnotism in animals.
GMN 580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/368
1704 MEAD, Richard (1673 – 1754)
De imperio solis ac lunae in corpora humana, et morbis inde oriundis.
Mead formulated the position that periodic atmospheric tides arising from planetary forces produced alterations of gravity, elasticity, and air pressure; these changes, he argued, affected the human body in health and…
GMN 10160 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12349
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
1842 BRAID, James (1795 – 1860)
Satanic agency and mesmerism reviewed. In a Letter to the Rev. H. Mc. Neile A.M. of Liverpool: In reply to a sermon preached by him in St. Jude's Church, Liverpool, on Sunday, April 10th, 1842.
Braid’s scientific investigations of mesmerism convinced him that its effects did not depend on an outside force, but were natural phenomena arising from the subject’s heightened suggestibility. This 10-page pamphlet …
GMN 4992.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6524
1843 BRAID, James (1795 – 1860)
Neurypnology, or, the rationale of nervous sleep.
Braid inaugurated modern hypnotism, the word itself being introduced by him. His theories were adopted by Broca, Charcot, Liébeault, and Bernheim; thus he founded the French School. New edition, edited with an introdu…
GMN 4993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6526
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
1866 LIÉBEAULT, Ambrose-Auguste (1823 – 1904)
Le sommeil et les états analogues considérés sur au point du vue de I’action du moral et de physique.
The substitution of psychotherapy for hypnotic suggestion starts with the work of Liébeault. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 4994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6528
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
1872 –1887 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière. 3 vols.
Charcot’s pioneering research on the application of hypnosis to the psychoneuroses brought this subject to the attention of the scientific community.
GMN 4995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6530
1881 PREYER, William Thierry (1841 – 1897); BRAID, James (1795 – 1860)
Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus: nebst einer ungedruckten Original-Abhandlung von [James] Braid in deutscher Übersetzung.
A translation into German by Preyer of a previously unpublished work on the history of hypnosis by James Braid.
GMN 5002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6556
1884 BERNHEIM, Hippolyte Marie (1840 – 1919)
De la suggestion dans l’état hypnotique et dans l’état de veille.
The foundation of the Nancy school of hypnosis. Like Liébeault, Bernheim studied the scientific applications of hypnotism and substituted verbal for sensory stimuli; he interpreted hypnotism and its consequent phenome…
GMN 4995.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6533
1888 FOREL, Auguste Henri (1848 – 1931)
Der Hypnotismus und die suggestive Psychotherapie.
GMN 4996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6536
1891 LIÉBEAULT, Ambrose-Auguste (1823 – 1904)
Thérapeutique suggestive.
GMN 4998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6539
1895 BREUER, Josef (1842 – 1925); FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
Studien über Hysterie.
The foundation of psychoanalysis. Using what they called the cathartic method, in which hysterical patients were made to describe the manifestations of their symptoms in detail, with or without hypnosis, Breuer and Fr…
GMN 4978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6401
1899 MARINESCU, Gheorghe [Georges Marinesco] (1863 – 1938)
Les troubles de la marche dans l'hémiplégie organique étudiés à l'aide du cinématographe.
Between July 1898 and 1902 Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu (Georges Marinesco) made the world's first documentary films in his clinic in Bucharest. "Marinescu perfected the use of cinematography as a research …
GMN 11293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13490
1903 BRAMWELL, John Milne (1852 – 1925)
Hypnosis: Its history, practice and theory.
An unexcelled “scholarly, critical, and detailed analysis of hypnosis” (Bliss).
GMN 5005.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6573
1911 GÉRIN, Octave Jacques (1875 – 1937); ESPINADEL, C.
La publicité suggestive théorie et technique.
Probably the first book on the application of hynosis in advertising. Gérin was professor at the Institut commercial de Paris, and his book was published in a series on "Les procedés modernes de vente." His book inclu…
GMN 11330 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13528
1922 COUÉ DE LA CHATAIGNERAIE, Émile [Coué] (1857 – 1926)
La maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente.
English translation as Self-mastery through conscious autosuggestion, New York: Markan Publishing Co., 1922. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11596
1923 JANET, Pierre Marie Félix (1859 – 1947)
La médecine psychologique.
Janet’s summary of his work with hypnosis, including one of the most detailed histories of hypnosis available. English translation, as Psychological healing, 2 vols., 1925.
GMN 4990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6480
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
2008 HARRINGTON, Anne
The cure within: A history of mind-body medicine.
GMN 7569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9741
2009 BRAID, James (1795 – 1860); ROBERTSON, Donald
The discovery of hypnosis: The complete writings of James Braid, the father of hypnotherapy. Edited with detailed prefatory essays by Donald Robertson.
GMN 7715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9887
