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1-10 of 152 documents published in 2007
Douglas J. LANSKA e Joseph T. LANSKA

“Franz Anton Mesmer and the Rise and Fall of Animal Magnetism: Dramatic Cures, Controversy, and Ultimately a Triumph for the Scientific Method”

Harry Whitaker, Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience, Springer London 2007, pp. 301-320.

In the late eighteenth century, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734%u20131815) promulgated animal magnetism as a pervasive property of nature that could be channeled as an effective therapy for a wide variety of conditions. His claims of dramatic therapeutic success were supported by glowing testimonials, in some cases from socially prominent individuals. However, mainstream medical practitioners, professional societies, and political bodies rejected Mesmer and his treatment, and ultimately moved to eliminate Mesmer%u2019s practice and that of his disciples. In retrospect it is clear that traditional physicians in the late eighteenth century had little to offer their patients therapeutically that had any real possibility of benefit, and instead, often harmed their patients with their treatments, whereas Mesmer could demonstrate cases %u201Ccured%u201D by his treatment that had previously failed all conventional approaches. While one might be tempted to dismiss his therapeutic successes as only applicable to hysterical or imagined illness, some of his patients went on to lead quite functional lives when before they were deemed hopeless invalids, a point that even his detractors acknowledged.

Renko GEFFARTH

“The Masonic Necromancer: shifting identities in the lives of Johann Georg Schrepfer”

Olav Hammer, Polemical Encounters: Esoteric Discourse and Its Others 2007.
Mariano TOMATIS

Se un falso fosse davvero buono… - Editoriale

Indagini su Rennes-le-Château, N. 8, january 2007, p. 369.
Madeleine BLANCASALL

I discendenti merovingi o l’enigma del Razès visigoto

Indagini su Rennes-le-Château, N. 8, january 2007, pp. 371-385.
Mariano TOMATIS

Lazare, Véni Foras!

Indagini su Rennes-le-Château, N. 8, january 2007, pp. 386-403.
Nacim DJAMA

Lettera di Nacim Djama del 12 ottobre 1978

Indagini su Rennes-le-Château, N. 8, january 2007, p. 404.
Nacim DJAMA

Lettera di Nacim Djama del 21 ottobre 1978

Indagini su Rennes-le-Château, N. 8, january 2007, p. 405.
Nacim DJAMA

Lettera di Nacim Djama del 20 ottobre 1978

Indagini su Rennes-le-Château, N. 8, january 2007, p. 405.
Nacim DJAMA

Lazare, Véni Foras! Prefazione del ri-editore

Indagini su Rennes-le-Château, N. 8, january 2007, p. 406.
Charles PARRA

Estratto da Lazare, Véni Foras!

Indagini su Rennes-le-Château, N. 8, january 2007, pp. 407-408.
1-10 of 152 documents published in 2007