Voorbeelden van mesmerism

• Somnolism and psycheism; or, the science of the soul and the phenomena of nervation, as revealed by vital magnetism or mesmerism.

• In other words he has a previous knowledge of mesmerism acquired independently from the servant girl.

• The construction of a house marked the end of her six-year confinement to the sickbed and her miraculous cure by mesmerism.

• By the 1880s, ' mesmerism ' started to be applied scientifically.

• Other doctors supporting the use of mesmerism in surgery also ran into stiff opposition.

• At the time, ether and chloroform were being tried as anaesthetics, so the proponents of mesmerism may have faced some jealous rivals.

• The second chapter, on "music, mesmerism, and mental science," may be the most fascinating and seems to me to make the most original contribution.

• It was known for its fierce attacks on homeopathy, hydropathy, mesmerism, and other approaches considered "sectarian" and unreliable by the "regular" (allopathic) medical establishment.

• It was precisely this rapport, however, that many distrusted: the charge of immorality generally associated with mesmerism was intensified by the physical nature of this treatment.

• In its broadest sense the term 'mesmerism' referred to a spectrum of phenomena, all apparently derived from the supposed vital force or influence.

• Hérold's ballet-pantomime and its attendant vaudevilles encapsulated some of the ideas circulating in 1827 regarding immorality, mesmerism and the ambiguous relationship between the unconscious and the supernatural.

• The support of osteopathy is as a mere drop in the bucket compared with that which mesmerism received in that day.

• But mesmerism has comedown to these times, and it has always had its successes.

• He also has the powers of mesmerism, thought-casting, illusion-casting, and astral projection.

• He is a psychiatrist and explorer as well as a minor telepath and magician, specializing mostly in hypnosis and other feats of mesmerism.