![]() He soon stopped using magnets as a part of his treatment. He felt that he had contributed animal magnetism, which had accumulated in his work, to her. Mesmer did not believe that the magnets had achieved the cure on their own. She reported feeling streams of a mysterious fluid running through her body and was relieved of her symptoms for several hours. In 1774, Mesmer produced an "artificial tide" in a patient by having her swallow a preparation containing iron, and then attaching magnets to various parts of her body. Mozart later immortalized his former patron by including a comedic reference to Mesmer in his opera Così fan tutte. In 1768, when court intrigue prevented the performance of La Finta Semplice for which a twelve-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had composed 500 pages of music, Mesmer is said to have arranged a performance in his garden of Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne, a one-act opera, though Mozart's biographer Nissen has stated that there is no proof that this performance actually took place. In the summers he lived on a splendid estate and became a patron of the arts. In January 1768, Mesmer married Anna Maria von Posch, a wealthy widow, and established himself as a physician in the Austrian capital Vienna. That said, in Mesmer's day doctoral theses were not expected to be original. Pattie suggests that Mesmer plagiarized his dissertation from a work by Richard Mead, an eminent English physician and Newton's friend. This was not medical astrology - relying largely on Newton's theory of the tides - Mesmer expounded on certain tides in the human body that might be accounted for by the movements of the sun and moon. In 1766 he published a doctoral dissertation with the Latin title De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum ( On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body), which discussed the influence of the Moon and the planets on the human body and on disease. ![]() After studying at the Jesuit universities of Dillingen and Ingolstadt, he took up the study of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1759. Mesmer was born in the village of Iznang, on the shore of Lake Constance in Swabia, Germany a son of master forester Anton Mesmer (1701 - after 1747) and his wife Maria/Ursula (1701 - 1770), née Michel. Mesmer's name is the root of the English verb "mesmerize". In 1843 James Braid, a Scottish physician proposed the term hypnosis for a technique derived from magnetism but more limited in its claimed effects, and also different in its conception. Mesmerism is considered to be a form of vitalism and shares features with other vitalist theories that also emphasize the movement of life "energy" through distinct channels in the body. Franz Anton Mesmer (March 5, 1815), sometimes, albeit incorrectly, referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called magnétisme animal ( animal magnetism) and other spiritual forces often grouped together as mesmerism.
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