Mesmer

[ mez-mer; German mes-muhr ]

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noun

Franz [frants, franz, f, r, ahnts] or Frie·drich An·ton [free, -drik , an, -tn, -ton, free, -dri, kh, , ahn, -tohn], 1733–1815, Austrian physician.

A friend of Dr. Minoret, with whom he had some lively tilts about Mesmer.

Those nervous conditions associated with the name of Mesmer were nothing new to the Indian magicians.

And in 1778 the wonder-working Mesmer had set up his machinery and masqueraded as a magician in a house in the same street.

These facts were first discovered nearly a hundred and fifty years ago by a French doctor named Mesmer.

Like Mesmer he realized that treating people in groups led them mutually to influence each other and to bring about improvement.

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[flab-er-gast ]

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