Mesmer

[ mez-mer; German mes-muhr ]

/ ˈmɛz mər; German ˈmɛs mər /

Franz

[frants, franz; German frahnts] /frænts, frænz; German frɑnts/ or Frie·drich An·ton

[free-drik -an-tn, -ton; German free-drikh -ahn-tohn], /ˈfri drɪk ˈæn tn, -tɒn; German ˈfri drɪx ˈɑn toʊn/, 1733–1815, Austrian physician.

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In the last year of his life he became acquainted with Mesmer, and published a Lettre sur le magntisme animal.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6|Various
Mesmer strove, by the latter, to explain the effects which his practice produced.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847|Various
Mesmer, who was luminous for a while, did not fail to dupe the people.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866|Various
How eagerly Mesmer awaited the fruition of his shrewd manipulation!
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913|Harris Newmark

So from Mesmer in 1773 to Dupotet and Elliotson in 1838 we have the period of the “early mesmerists.”
Telepathy and the Subliminal Self|R. Osgood Mason

Mesmer

[ mĕz′mər, mĕs′- ]

Franz 1734-1815

Austrian physician who sought to treat disease through animal magnetism, an early therapeutic application of hypnotism.