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    WHAT WAS mesmerism?

    Jan 12, 2022 2 minutes
    Deborah Nash

    Mesmerism was a popular pseudoscience of the 18th and 19th centuries.

    It was named after its originator, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), a Vienna-trained German doctor. He developed the theory that all living things and inanimate objects possess an invisible energy or ‘vital’ force that flows through numerous channels in the body.

    Mesmer argued

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