Franz Anton Mesmer
1733-1815
Swiss Physician
The Swiss physician Franz Anton Mesmer was a well-known figure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The term mesmerized is derived from h...
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The German physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) developed a healing technique called mesmerism that is the historical antecedent of hypnosis.Franz Mesmer was born on May 23, 1734, in the village o...
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Franz Anton Mesmer
Franz Anton Mesmer