Mesmerism: The Discovery of Animal Magnetism: English Translation of Mesmer's historic Mémoire sur la découverte du Magnétisme Animal

by Franz Mesmer, G.F. Frankau (Introduction), V.R. Myers (Translator)

In 1779, Franz Anton Mesmer wrote an 88-page book, Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal, to which he appended his famous 27 Propositions. While undertaking research, G.F. Frankau obtained, on loan from a private library, an original edition of Mesmer's Mémoire sur la découverte de Magnétism Animal.

Realising its medico-historical importance and tempted by a layman's vanity to undertake the translation himself, he eventually decided that the task could only be accomplished by an expert; He secured the services of Captain V. R. Myers of the Berlitz School of Languages. Myer’s rendering of the eighteenth-century French is highly praiseworthy.

The adjective "mesmeric”, the substantive "mesmerism", and the verb to "mesmerise" have not changed their meanings since they first became current—posterity's unique tribute to a unique man.

72 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 7, 2016

Reviews

[Felipe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just a well-written biographical disclosure of how Animal Magnetism has been discovered by Franz Anton Mesmer in his own words. No further information about the techniques applied but that which asserts the connection between the Heavenly bodies (the planets) and how their irradiation influence animate and inanimate bodies on Earth so as to convey cures and increase one's health.

[Miri Villerius]

funny

[Michael Aditya · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an autobiography of Franz Anton Mesmer, the story of alternative medication on 16th century. The book does not teach you the methods of Magnetism or how to magnetize people or animal. It's only want you to know the story of Mesmer and the Mesmerism itself. But it was a good historical book from the point of view of Mesmer.

[Xurshid · Rating 3 out of 5]

just a biography of the author and discovery of magnetism. Book does not contain any methods of mesmerism.