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Bookmark or Share- Mesmerized | Science History InstituteIn the late 1770s, in the midst of the French Enlightenment, Franz Anton Mesmer was at the height of his medical career. Hundreds of people flocked to be cured by the man in the lilac taffeta robe who waved his hands and an iron rod over his patients’ bodies, sending them into fits as they fell to the ground.
- Franz Anton Mesmer, the Man Who Invented HypnotismFranz Anton Mesmer, the Man Who Invented Hypnotism. A tall, striking doctor with an unusually piercing gaze sits opposite his patient, firmly pressing her knees between his own. He stares...
- Franz Mesmer - New World EncyclopediaFranz Anton Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) discovered what he called magnétism animal (animal magnetism) and others often called mesmerism. Mesmer's ideas and practices would later be developed by James Braid as modern hypnosis.
- Franz Anton Mesmer | Magnetism, Hypnosis, Animal MagnetismFranz Anton Mesmer (born May 23, 1734, Iznang, Swabia [Germany]—died March 5, 1815, Meersburg, Swabia) was a German physician whose system of therapeutics, known as mesmerism, was the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism.
- Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) - Spotlight at StanfordFranz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) by Jessica Riskin, Associate professor of History, Stanford University. Franz Anton Mesmer, a doctor from the Swabian village of Iznang, was born on 23 May 1734, the third of nine children of a gamekeeper and forest warden to the Archbishop of Constance.
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