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Mesmerism

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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The theory that one person can, by magnetic means, produce in another a state of passivity resembling sleep, during which the victim is completely subject to the will of the operator. So called from the first proponent of the theory, Franz Mesmer.

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Entry for 'Mesmerism'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​m/mesmerism.html. 1910.
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