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Definition of Friedrich Anton Mesmer
1. Noun. Austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815).
Generic synonyms: Doc, Doctor, Dr., Md, Medico, Physician
Derivative terms: Mesmerise, Mesmerize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Friedrich Anton Mesmer
Literary usage of Friedrich Anton Mesmer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The doctrine of animal magnetism (Mesmerism), established by Friedrich Anton
Mesmer (1734-1815), is connected with Vitalism in so far as Mesmer presupposes ..."
2. Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow (1900)
"... as well as the similar state induced in his patients by Gassner, indicate a
high degree of suggestibility. in Friedrich Anton Mesmer was born in Iznang, ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1902)
"It is not, however, our purpose here to discuss the subject of hypnotism, but to
give an account of its chief prophet, Friedrich Anton Mesmer. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"In 1775 the theory of animal magnetism was put forward in Vienna by Friedrich
Anton Mesmer. Neither his theories nor his facts differ very greatly from ..."
5. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1898)
"Dr. Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1723-1815), of Meersburg, Baden. Besides Nos. 893 a,
b there is: 2544. Obverse. Bust, to left. Beneath: Lassagne. ..."
6. The Question: "If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?": Job XIV 14. A Brief by Edward Clodd (1918)
"... from Sweden- borg's trance utterances, the impulse to that movement is traceable
to the theories of a Viennese doctor, Friedrich Anton Mesmer. ..."
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