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Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798 1868), poet and collector, was a
well-connected friend of Robert Southey and Charles Dickens. He
became fascinated with Mesmerism while in Germany and went on to
popularise it in England. This book, first published in 1840, was
his passionate defence of Mesmerism. Developed in the late
eighteenth century by Franz Mesmer, Mesmerism was a kind of
hypnosis based on the theory of animal magnetism. With its
spiritual associations and uncanny effects, it was an extremely
controversial topic in the nineteenth century and its practitioners
were widely considered fraudsters. Townshend describes in detail
the mental states Mesmerism induces, which he identifies as similar
to a state of sleepwalking. Perhaps most fascinating are the
eye-witness accounts describing experiments carried out by
Townshend on the continent, in which he hypnotised his subjects
into feeling his own sensations and knowing things they could not
know.
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text,
possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our
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Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text,
possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our
control.
Facts In Mesmerism, With Reasons For A Dispassionate Inquiry Into
It With an Appendix, Containing The Report Of The Boston Committee
On Animal Magnetism.
Facts In Mesmerism, With Reasons For A Dispassionate Inquiry Into
It With an Appendix, Containing The Report Of The Boston Committee
On Animal Magnetism.
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