"From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a…
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage, and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism. Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period, mesmerism embraced a …
"From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting each other into trances in parlors, on stage, and in medical offices. They were performing mesmerism. In the first comprehensive American history of mesmerism in thirty years, Emily Ogden connects the occult scie…
