Mesmerism and Christian Science: A Short History of Mental Healing - Couverture souple

Podmore, Frank

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ISBN 10 : 1162615621 ISBN 13 : 9781162615622

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Mesmerism and Christian Science: A Short History of Mental Healing is a book written by Frank Podmore. It provides a comprehensive overview of the history of mental healing, focusing specifically on the two major movements of mesmerism and Christian Science. The book explores the origins of these practices, their development over time, and their impact on society and culture. It also examines the scientific and religious controversies surrounding mental healing, as well as the various theories and techniques used by practitioners. Overall, Mesmerism and Christian Science offers a fascinating look at the history of mental healing and its enduring influence on modern medicine and spirituality.1909. The aim of the present work is briefly to describe the various phases of the movement initiated by Mesmer, and to trace the successive attempts made by those who came after him to get below the surface to the underlying reality. The universal indifferent fluid of the famous Propositions was discredited in the eyes of the scientific world by Bailly's report. By Mesmer's followers, even in his lifetime, it was weighed and found wanting.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

August should be observed as a day of humiliation by every learnedS ociety in the civilised world, for on that date in 1784 aC ommission, consisting of the most distinguished representatives of Science in the most enlightened capital in Europe, pronounced the rejection of a pregnant scientific discovery a discovery possibly rivalling in permanent significance all the contributions to the physicalS ciences made by the two most famous members of the Commission Lavoisier and Benjamin Franklin. Not that the report on Animal Magnetism presented by Bailly and his colleagues did serious injustice toM esmer himself, or to his vaunted science. The magnetic fluid was a chimaera, and Mesmer, it may be admitted, was perhaps three parts a charlatan. He had no pretensions to be a thinker: he stole his philosophy ready-made from a few belated alchemists ;and his entire system of healing was based on a delusion. His extraordinary success was due to the lucky accident of the times. Mesmer sfirst claim to our remembrance lies in this that he wrested the privilege of healing from the Churches, and gave it to mankind as a universal possession. In rejecting the gift for themselves and their successors to the third and fourth generation Bailly and his colleagues rejected more than they knew. Now, more than a hundred years later, physicians and laymen alike are coming to realise the benefits of healing byS
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Présentation de l'éditeur

For most of his life a clerk in the post office, Frank Podmore (1856–1910) was a prolific author on psychical research. As an undergraduate Podmore became interested in spiritualism, and he joined the British National Association of Spiritualists. Eventually disillusioned by that society, Podmore co-founded several organisations: the Progressive Association (in 1882); the Fellowship of the New Life (1883); and, spurred by his desire to see political change, the Fabian Society (1884). Podmore's membership in the Society for Psychical Research influenced his activities and interests, and he spent the next twenty years investigating and writing on psychical phenomena. Podmore's two-volume Modern Spiritualism (also reissued in this series) is a source for this 1909 work, which 'constituted the most scholarly history of mesmerism and its offshoots to that date', according to one reviewer. This work will interest historians of science and medicine, and scholars of Victorian religious movements.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1162615621
• ISBN 13: 9781162615622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible