Mesmer

[mez-mer; German mes-muh r]

noun

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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This Doctor Mesmer deserves a few words from us, as his name was then in all mouths.
The Queen's Necklace
Alexandre Dumas pre
Mesmer only condensed this knowledge into a science, and gave it a name.
The Queen's Necklace
Alexandre Dumas pre
Mesmer was furious, and exhausted himself in complaints and menaces.
The Queen's Necklace
Alexandre Dumas pre
But the other doctors were of the bats eyes sort, and hunted Mesmer down.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887
Various
Mesmer, hearing the police had their eye on him, went to Spa.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887
Various

mesmer in Medicine

Mesmer

[mĕz′mər, mĕs′-]Franz 1734-1815

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

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