Mesmer

Mesmer definition - medical

Mes·mer (mĕzˈmər, mĕsˈ-), Franz or Friedrich Anton 1734-1815.

Austrian physician who sought to treat disease through animal magnetism, an early therapeutic application of hypnotism.

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