MAY 2008, VOLUME 36 NUMBER 2, Abstract 2
MESMERISM ONLINE: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW
Carlos S. Alvarado, University of Virginia
There are many books and articles of historical interest about mesmerism in the digital library Google Book Search. Some of them are mentioned under the following headings: histories and overviews, phenomena, medical applications, critiques, explanatory concepts, anti-materialistic views, and miscellaneous materials including topics such as work with special subjects, the relationship of mesmerism and phrenology, and bibliographies. Some of the authors represented in the digital library are Alexander Bertrand, James Braid, J. P. F. Deleuze, Albert de Rochas, J. Dupotet de Sennevoy, John Elliotson, James Esdaile, Joseph W. Haddock, E. F. Henin de Cuvillers, Justinus Kerner, C. A. F. Kluge, Charles Lafontaine, and Franz Anton Mesmer. The collection includes issues of the following periodicals: Archives du Magnétisme Animal, Magikon, Le Magnétiseur, The Phreno-Magnet and Mirror of Nature, and Zoist.