books.google.com.au - Franz Anton Mesmer arrived in Paris from Austria in February 1778 and established a medical practice which hailed him as one of the most remarkable men of his time. His skill lay in his theories and in his use of 'animal magnetism' to cure disease. Mesmer began a school of thought which spread across...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_History_of_Hypnotism.html?id=yYJNCUyq6FwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA History of Hypnotism
