A Short Overview of Mesmerism

I examine how Franz Anton Mesmer’s theory of “animal magnetism” in the eighteenth century was adapted and received in 19th century Britain and America. ************************************************ Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/victorianvarie1 Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/marisadf13 I’d also really appreciate it if you could take a moment to rate and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts, as that will help this podcast reach more listeners! ************************************************ References: “Chris.” “Professor John Elliotson: The Curious Case of a Victorian Mesmerist.” Inquisitive Wonder, April 17, 2020, https://inquisitivewonder.com/professor-john-elliotson-the-curious-case-of-a-victorian-mesmerist/. Debczak, Michele. “Charles Dickens, Part-Time Mesmerist.” Mental Floss, July 4, 2017, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/500938/charles-dickens-part-time-mesmerist. “Franz Anton Mesmer.” The History of Hypnosis, 2019, http://www.historyofhypnosis.org/franz-anton-mesmer.html. Manson, Deborah. “The 19th-Century Pseudo-Science Trend That Gave Us ‘Animal Magnetism.’” Zocalo Public Square, June 27, 2018, https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/06/27/19th-century-pseudo-science-trend-gave-us-animal-magnetism/ideas/essay/. Poe, Edgar A. “Mesmeric Revelation.” Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, September 4, 2015, https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/mesmera.htm. Rouse, Tyler. “The brief and strange history of mesmerism and surgery.” Hektoen International Journal, Winter 2019, https://hekint.org/2018/12/24/the-brief-and-strange-history-of-mesmerism-and-surgery/. “The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist.” Wellcome Collection, April 23, 2018, https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WsT4Ex8AAHruGfXv.