Mesmer

[ mez-mer; German mes-muh r ]

/ ˈmɛz mər; German ˈmɛs mər /

Franz

[frants, franz; German frahnts] /frænts, frænz; German frɑnts/or Frie·drich An·ton

[free-drik an-tn, -ton; German free-drikh ahn-tohn] /ˈfri drɪk ˈæn tn, -tɒn; German ˈfri drɪx ˈɑn toʊn/,1733–1815, Austrian physician.

Example sentences from the Web for mesmer

In the last year of his life he became acquainted with Mesmer, and published a Lettre sur le magntisme animal.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 |Various
Mesmer strove, by the latter, to explain the effects which his practice produced.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 |Various
Mesmer, who was luminous for a while, did not fail to dupe the people.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 |Various
How eagerly Mesmer awaited the fruition of his shrewd manipulation!

Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 |Harris Newmark

So from Mesmer in 1773 to Dupotet and Elliotson in 1838 we have the period of the “early mesmerists.”

Telepathy and the Subliminal Self |R. Osgood Mason

Mesmer

[ mĕz′mər, mĕs′- ]

Franz 1734-1815

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