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The illustrated practical mesmerist : curative and scientific / by William Davey.

Davey, William, -1860., Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine · 1862 · London : Job Caudwell, [1862] · 12 pictures

A mid-nineteenth-century London manual on mesmerism by William Davey, published around 1862 by Job Caudwell for a general lay readership interested in curative and scientific claims. Its pictures are plain black-and-white wood engravings of seated patients, a practitioner's hand gesturing toward a sitter's face, and labelled scenes like 'Mesmerizing a Recumbent' and 'Gout', giving a designer period woodcut vignettes with strong hand gestures and simple framing borders.

Mesmerism · Hypnosis

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