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Author : Sinnett Alfred Percy
Title : The rationale of mesmerism
Year : 1892

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Chapter I. Old and new theories. IT is neoeuary at the outset that I should explain why I am writing about mesmerism and not about hypnotism. Names are, after all, but ticketa put by conventional agreement upon things or branches of kowledge, and if, in the first instance, a hundred years ago, when the matter began to attract notice in Europe, the word "hypnotism" had been adopted to describe certain abnormal conditions of the human body and the human faculties, we need not, at this stage of the proceedings, have quarreled with the expression. ...