Mesmer

[ mez-mer; German mes-muhr ]

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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A friend of Dr. Minoret, with whom he had some lively tilts about Mesmer.
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Those nervous conditions associated with the name of Mesmer were nothing new to the Indian magicians.
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And in 1778 the wonder-working Mesmer had set up his machinery and masqueraded as a magician in a house in the same street.
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These facts were first discovered nearly a hundred and fifty years ago by a French doctor named Mesmer.
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Like Mesmer he realized that treating people in groups led them mutually to influence each other and to bring about improvement.
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