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Definition of Mesmerists
1. mesmerist [n] - See also: mesmerist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesmerists
Literary usage of Mesmerists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1908)
"The Early mesmerists. — Their Methods and their Effects. ... THAT the magnetic
hypothesis of the mesmerists has many facts to sustain it cannot be denied. ..."
2. Hypnotism and treatment by suggestion by John Milne Bramwell (1910)
"CHAPTER IX METHODS Classification of Methods of inducing Hypnosis: (I) Physical, (2)
Psychical, (3) Those of the mesmerists—Braid's Methods— ..."
3. Faith-healing: Christian Science and Kindred Phenomena by James Monroe Buckley (1892)
"... FAITH HEALERS, mesmerists, ETC. MRS. EDDY speaks of Mesmerism in this way:
Mortal mind, acting from the basis of sensuous belief in matter, ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1851)
"In short, the " onus pro- bandi " is upon the mesmerists to enow in what does
mesmerism with all its mysteries differ from the ordinary performances of any ..."
5. Modern Spiritualism: A History and a Criticism by Frank Podmore (1902)
"... ENGLISH mesmerists AS we have already seen, the phenomena of Animal f-\
Magnetism attracted little attention in this country, alone of European nations, ..."
6. Mesmerism in India, and Its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine by James Esdaile (1902)
"Injustice done to the Memory of the first mesmerists.—Every available Evidence
here given.—Imposture morally and physically impossible. ..."
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