Animal Magnetism: And Hypnotism

This short exposition is partially about the application of hypnotism within a medical context and, at large, a refutation of its predecessor, mesmerism, specifically of Mesmer himself, who was exposed in his own era, along with others he had both fooled and associated with.The medical history here is short but dense, and some of the applications remain in full force even to this day although others have been largely cast aside as pseudoscience or as fancy.