Word: priestsâ
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Mental Healers narrates the life-history, describes the practices of three such doctor-priests???the discoverers of Mesmerism, Christian Science, Psychoanalysis. Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1814) started the snowball rolling with a bit of magnetized iron. In 1774 Maximilian Hell, astronomer of the Society of Jesus, fashioned a magnet which, on application, cured a lady's stomach trouble. Mesmer tried similar tricks with Hell magnets himself; to his amazement they worked. An enormous practice sprang up at Mesmer's Vienna home. Soon, however, he discovered that the magnet was unnecessary, that he could cure his patients by merely touching them...
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