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	Franz Mesmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mesmer was born in the village of Iznang, Swabia, on the shore of Lake Constance.
		This was not medical astrology—relying largely on Newton's theory of the tides, Mesmer expounded on certain tides in the human body that might be accounted for by the movements of the sun and moon.
		Mesmer said that while Gassner was sincere in his beliefs, his cures were due to the fact that he possessed a high degree of animal magnetism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_Mesmer (1377 words)

	William Zeitler - About The Armonica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) was the Viennese psychiatrist who brought forth the theory of "animal magnetism" and produced cures by a "Baquet" (large tub), laying on of hands, hypnosis and suggestion, later known as Mesmerism.
		Mesmer was well known for both the virtuosity of his playing and the fine quality of his own glass armonica, on which Mozart himself played as early as 1773.
		Mesmer died in relative poverty and obscurity at the age of 81.
	www.glassarmonica.com /armonica/mesmer (502 words)

	Franz (originally Friedrich) Anton Mesmer (www.whonamedit.com)
		Franz Anton Mesmer was born and raised in the Swabian village of Iznang auf der Höri, near the Bodensee (Lake of Constance).
		Mesmer's fiercest opponents in this case was doctors Anton Freiherr von Stoerck (1731-1803), life physician to the empress Maria Theresia (1717-1780) and emperor Franz I (1708-1765, reigned from 1745); and the eye specialist Joseph Barth (1745-1818).
		Mesmer again achieved a tremendous success with the public, and with the subscription connected to his name by his pupils, he became a rich man and was at the height of his influence.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/313.html (3215 words)

	Anton-Mesmer.com
		Franz Anton Mesmer was born in 1734 at lake Boden in Germany.
		What really happened is uncertain; Mesmer himself asserts that he managed to cure her, but that her parents, who recived a pension that would be revoked if the girl was to regain her eyesight, withdrew her from Mesmers care, and she relapsed into blindness.
		Mesmer's opponents claim that he only managed to make the girl "see" images by suggestion, and that the parents withdrew the girl when they found out that Mesmer had seduced her.
	www.anton-mesmer.com (543 words)

	Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds -- Chapter 60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mesmer was the rage; and high and low, rich and poor, credulous and unbelieving, all hastened to convince themselves of the power of this mighty magician, who made such magnificent promises.
		Mesmer, who knew as well as any man living the influence of the imagination, determined that, on that score, nothing should be wanting to heighten the effect of the magnetic charm.
		Mesmer readily embraced the proposal; and such was the infatuation, that the subscription was not only filled in a few days, but exceeded by no less a sum than one hundred and forty thousand francs.
	www.litrix.com /madraven/madne060.htm (3938 words)

	Anton Mesmer
		Mesmer declined both conditions and in the spirit of bargaining-table bluff, he threatened to leave France if the pension was not provided without the conditions the king wanted to impose.
		Mesmer left Paris, but was persuaded to return, exhaled after the fund collected by his followers surpassed the sum which the king had originally offered.
		And while the story of this strange 18th century man may delight, offend, or mesmerize the reader, Franz Anton must surely appear to us as no more a quack than some of the 20th century psychologists who must trace their intellectual roots to this man whose name is now a part of our language.
	psychicinvestigator.com /Occult/Mesmr.htm (1311 words)

	Franz Anton Mesmer
		Born in Well, Austria in 1733, Franz Anton Mesmer was a psychiatrist who evolved the theory of ‘animal magnetism’ and developed cures to psychological problems.
		It was from Mesmer that we got one of the new lines of thought in psychology, later known as mesmerism.
		Mesmerism, considered as the hypnotic trance state, was the output of a lot research and studies.
	about-hypnosis.com /franz-anton-mesmer.html (548 words)

	Anton-Mesmer.com - Hypnosis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Franz Anton Mesmer (1734 - 1815) is widely attributed as the modern father of hypnosis.
		Mesmer himself was very much a real showman, conveying by his manner that something was going to happen to the patient.
		Mesmer was also most responsible for the popular image of the hypnotist as a man with magnetic eyes, a cape and goatee beard.
	www.anton-mesmer.com /hypnosis.htm (288 words)

	Mesmer & Hypnosis
		Mesmer came to the conclusion that only certain people had this gift of being able to control the flow of this mysterious "fluid" and these practitioners had the power to make the fluid flow from themselves into the patient.
		Despite widespread skepticism of Mesmer's methods, he was certainly the first person to draw the attention of the world to the important fact that mental treatment can have a direct bearing on illness of the body, and that the proper use of mesmerism, or hypnosis, can have immense benefit to psychic investigators.
		Mesmer attracted a circle of disciples who believed in his theories and studied their application under his instruction.
	psychicinvestigator.com /demo/Mesmr2.htm (1225 words)

	Mesmer - Synopsis - Moviefone
		In 18th century Vienna, Mesmer (Alan Rickman) believes that many of the favored medical treatments of the day -- most notoriously the inducement of bleeding to remove harmful "humors" from the body -- are both dangerous and ineffective to the patients they are intended to treat.
		Mesmer receives a great deal of publicity when well-known pianist Maria Theresa Paradies (Amanda Ooms) suffers a severe seizure during a recital; while several physicians in attendance want to submit Paradies to an immediate bleeding, Mesmer applies his magnetism techniques, which prove to be effective in calming the young woman.
		Paradies was tremendously grateful to Mesmer and began seeing him regularly as a patient; she soon developed an emotional attachment to the doctor that became something of a public scandal.
	movies.aol.com /movie/mesmer/3801/synopsis (226 words)

	BookRags: Franz Anton Mesmer Biography
		Franz Mesmer was born on May 23, 1734, in the village of Itznang, Switzerland.
		Mesmer believed a rapport with his patients was essential for cure and achieved it with diverse trappings.
		Mesmer's methods were frowned upon by the medical establishment in Vienna, so in 1778 he moved to Paris, hoping for a better reception for his ideas.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/franz-anton-mesmer (426 words)

	Mesmer, Franz Anton (1734-1815) Encyclopedia of Psychology - Find Articles
		The son of a forester, Mesmer was born on May 23, 1734, in Iznang, in the German province of Swabia.
		Mesmer concluded that people did not need to rely on planetary gravitational pull; rather, they could manipulate their health through the use of any magnetic force.
		By 1775, Mesmer had revised his animal gravitation theory, renaming it "animal magnetism." He believed that magnets were not necessary after all; the passing of hands over the body were enough to create the necessary magnetic forces.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_dls/g2699/0005/2699000549/p1/article.jhtml (682 words)

	Trance and Trauma
		Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) [see figure 22] was born in the German town of Iznang.
		In the spirit of his dissertation, Mesmer set about trying to relate the periodicity of Fräulein Oesterlin's symptom manifestations to tidal fluctuations and, in the course of this effort, decided to see whether he could induce an artificial tide in his patient.
		Mesmer's fall was as meteoric as his rise.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /Mind/Trance.html (2668 words)

	Alan Rickman in Mesmer
		Mesmer's point is that the body cannot be treated independently of the emotions; that there is a connection - a life force - that runs through everything in the world and this life force cannot be ignored.
		Mesmer treats his patients with the same clinical care that a scientist would show his lab rats: a negative quality of not harming them beyond what is necessary to effect the cure he's searching for.
		Mesmer abandons her when her sight comes back - no thanks to his treatment, by the way; she falls and hits her head - and she becomes the successfully treated patient who's going to validate his theory once and for all.
	www.rickmanistareview.com /mesmer.html (1823 words)

	mesmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mesmerism was formulated by Franz Anton Mesmer, a physician and healer who achieved remarkable cures.
		FRANZ MESMER put together ideas like suggestion, auto-suggestion, the laying on of hands, and stroking medicine in a scientific, systematic method, then popularized his concept.
		Mesmer is considered the early pioneer of modern hypnotism.
	www.waterbutler.com /mesmer.htm (1004 words)

	WLM History Review 2:2
		Popularized by Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), mesmerism was an outgrowth of earlier studies on magnetism by William Gilbert (1540-1603).
		Mesmer developed his ideas during the last days of heroic medicine, an era of medical theories and practices based more on philosophical speculation than on scientific observation or testing.
		Mesmerism also reflects the belief of 19th century physicians that the nervous system dominates all aspects of body function.
	www.asahq.org /wlm/HistoryReview/vol2num2.html (359 words)

	Alan Rickman in Mesmer
		Mesmer merely wanted to alleviate the suffering, and that comes through in the film -- it is perhaps the paramount point of the whole piece.
		Mesmer was sensitive to the elimination of the pain inflicted by physicians on patients, even to screaming when he saw them starting to be bled before there was a need.
		Mesmer can be purchased in VHS format from Videoflicks, for $21.99 plus shipping (information correct as of 12 February, 1999).
	members.tripod.com /~emma_on_line/mesmer.html (1022 words)

	Benjamin Franklin . Inquiring Mind . Mesmer \| PBS
		In the early 1770s, Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician and theologian, developed a technique that he claimed could cure a variety of physical and mental ailments.
		Mesmer would move around the room and use his hands to channel invisible magnetic fluids to his followers.
		Whether he was a charlatan, a showman, or a true believer in his own practices, Franz Mesmer is credited as being one of the fathers of modern day hypnosis and psychotherapy.
	www.pbs.org /benfranklin/l3_inquiring_mesmer.html (598 words)

	movieThemes: Alan Rickman - Mesmer
		Mesmer believed that the body contained a mysterious magnetic force which could could be rebalanced to return the body to health, something which has only recent started to be proven in modern history.
		In defiance of the pouncy white wigs of this time, Rickman's Mesmer flaunts his longish blonde hair and wears his clothes with a sense of flourish and extravagance as he strides about confidently curing the insane in one scene, deflating like a balloon in the next as his confidence is challenged.
		When Mesmer is suddenly faced with the Baron who has a voice fed on helium, he wilts in the face of the enormity of what he has to cure.
	www.cybamuse.com /movieThemes/actors/arickman/mesmer.htm (814 words)

	Franz Anton Mesmer
		By no means completely dismissed, his theories brought on successors who claimed they could tap an unseen magnetic force within the body, and Mesmer is often credited with influencing the development of hypnotism as psychotherapy.
		Friedrich Anton Mesmer - Mesmer, Friedrich Anton, or Franz Anton Mesmer, 1734–1815, German physician.
		Franz Anton Mesmer - Physician, born 23 May 1734, 18th century healer and showman
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/franzantonmesmer.html (132 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Franz Mesmer
		Mesmer then came to believe that magnetic powers resided in himself, and during highly fashionable curative sessions in Paris he caused his patients to have reactions ranging from sleeping or dancing to convulsions.
		Mesmer wavered about what he was going to call the aspect of ourselves which responds to this etheric field, and he settled on the term "animal magnetism," a term he took from the works of a hermetic Jesuit a century earlier.
		Mesmerism thus introduced a hands-on craft of introspection, a pragmatic tactics of generating altered states of consciousness that could be reframed in a
	fusionanomaly.net /franzmesmer.html (1078 words)

	Mesmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It just ain't mesmerizing: Mesmer, the movie, that is. This is the story of 18th century physician Franz Anton Mesmer, who unorthodox practices caused quite a stir in Austria and Paris.
		Mesmer, as depicted in this sluggish biopic, believed in the powers of "animal magnetism," which from what I gathered from film is a harnessing and transference of energy from one source to another.
		Alan Rickman gives it his all as Mesmer, pursing his lips with determination, scrunching his forehead to summon all his bodily energy, and waiving his arms to call on the energy of animal magnetism to stimulate a cure for those he is treating.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/mesmer_dvd_review.htm (503 words)

	Mesmer and Mesmerism
		Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), a German physician who studied and first practiced in Vienna, developed a therapeutic system based on the idea that living bodies contain a magnetic fluid, and that by manipulating this fluid into a state of balance within the body, physical health could be restored.
		The French government and the medical establishment viewed Mesmer’s success and fame with skepticism and suspicion, so much so that in 1784 two commissions were appointed by King Louis XVI to investigate animal magnetism.
		It is largely a pictorial exhibit; viewers interested in reading further about Mesmer and mesmerism may click here to see a list of the works consulted in the preparation of this exhibit.
	www.thebakken.org /exhibits/mesmer (567 words)

	Franz Anton Mesmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Franz Anton Mesmer was born on the 23rd of May, 1734.
		He was educated as a Doctor and Theologian, Mesmer tried to combine the two studies with Astrology.
		Mesmer learned Astrology from a Jesuit Priest at the court in Austria.
	www.mscd.edu /~mdl/gerresources/men/mesmer.htm (112 words)

	Biography of Franz Anton Mesmer - founder of Mesmerism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In time, however, their ways were to part when Mesmer became annoyed by D'Eslon practising independently.
		After the attack by the Royal Commission into Mesmerism, and the continuing opposition of the medical profession, Mesmer chose another means to promote his ideas and support himself.
		This was by setting up an organisation - the Society of Honour - which consisted of a clinic, a teaching establishment and a register of qualified members who had received his training, and who paid for the privilege.
	www.hypno1.co.uk /bio_mesmer.htm (776 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mesmer: DVD: Roger Spottiswoode,Donal Donnelly,David Burke (II),Peter Dvorsky,Alan Rickman,Anna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Alan Rickman stars as Dr. Frantz Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician in the 18th century who is considered to be the most influential figure in the development of hypnosis.
		Mesmer did achieve success with his treatment but was ridiculed and ostracized by the medical community.
		This historical drama about Dr. Mesmer of Vienna (mesmerism) is only mildly rewarding, because it doesn't take a stand on the question: Was he a genius or a con man? It is frustrating to see several major events in his life played out, only to be left wondering....and not really caring.
	www.amazon.ca /Mesmer-Roger-Spottiswoode/dp/6305835551 (1974 words)

	Mesmer, Friedrich Anton - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		MESMER, FRIEDRICH ANTON [Mesmer, Friedrich Anton], or Franz Anton Mesmer, 1734-1815, German physician.
		His interest in "animal magnetism" developed into a system of treatment through hypnotism that was called mesmerism.
		It seems now that Mesmer was actually treating psychosomatic illness, but an unsympathetic medical and scientific community caused him to be expelled first from Vienna, and in 1778 from Paris.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mesmer-F.asp (211 words)

	Mesmerism
		Part of Mesmer's theory was that all animated bodies including man were affected by a magnetic force which also mutually influenced the celestial bodies and earth.
		For instance a portion of Mesmer's theory, as previously mentioned, was that all animated bodies including man were affected by a magnetic force which also mutually influenced the celestial bodies and earth.
		This portion of mesmerism had been emphasized by astrology for centuries since it studies the positions and movements of astronomical or celestial bodies, especially the sun, moon, and planets, and their effect upon the life and events on earth.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/m/mesmerism.html (1248 words)

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