A Treatise on Animal Magnetism - Paperback

by Tarl Warwick (Author), Charles P. Johnson (Author)

Animal Magnetism is now generally recognized as a fraudulent science and originates with Mesmer and some of his claims regarding healing. Its offspring, hypnotism, is still utilized to a degree today for some purposes.This collection of anecdotes regarding the effective use of magnetic healing in a therapeutic and scientific setting is quite interesting and ought to be seen as a piece of medical history, regarding one of the now-dead branches of occultism.