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IMAGE number: EVB2936551
Image title: Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). German physician believed that a spiritual force he called 'animal magnetism' and developed therapeutic massage and other physical practices to influence it's flow to cure patients. His theories countered religious explanations of madness and exorcisms, by assigning disease causes to 'natural' forces. His works was known by the 19th century practitioners of hypnosis, and his name is the source of the English word, mesmerize
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Image description: Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). German physician believed that a spiritual force he called 'animal magnetism' and developed therapeutic massage and other physical practices to influence it's flow to cure patients. His theories countered religious explanations of madness and exorcisms, by assigning disease causes to 'natural' forces. His works was known by the 19th century practitioners of hypnosis, and his name is the source of the English word, mesmerize
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