Mesmerism

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Mesmerism refers to Franz Anton Mesmer s doctrine of animal magnetism. Mesmer (1734-1815) -a German physician- understood it as a universal force of living beings with the capability of producing physical effects over the matter, in particular, healing. Therefore, it looked for cure to different diseases through the application of clinical techniques; in many cases, in this entrepreneurship phrenology became also an allied because of that both were thought of in terms of their physiological and psychological implications -i.e. the action over body and mind-. By referring to the notion of magnetism -which was extracted from physics, especially, electricity-, that force was defined as an ethereal fluid possible to be passed from one being to another. Información suministrada por el agente en SIGEVA