Hypnosis Collection (page 4)

Hypnotised Subject - 1
A hypnotised mental patient at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, responds to a distressing suggestion Date: 1885

Mesmer Plans Lodge / 1783
Mesmer plans his Lodge of Harmony at Paris Date: 1783

Deslon & Franklin
DESLON fails to magnetise Franklin in demonstration before the official commission, Paris Date: 1784

Hypnotism - Luys
Dr Luys gives a demonstration at La Charite hospital, Paris Date: circa 1886

Hypnotism, the falling forward test Date: 1900

Hypnotised patient realising health Date: 1900

A Mesmeric Barrage by Heath Robinson, WW1
War Inventions Not Needed Now! William Heath Robinson imagines America in the field! 4. A mesmeric barrage crumpling up an enemy attack. Date: 1918

Hypnosis - St Petersburg
Hypnosis given as treatment in St Petersburg, Russia in 1905. Date: 1905

Trilby hypnotised by Svengali, illustration from Trilby, 1894 (colour litho)
XTD84242 Trilby hypnotised by Svengali, illustration from Trilby, 1894 (colour litho) by Du Maurier, George (1834-96); Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; English, out of copyright

Light in the end of a spiral staircase

Sioux (Dakota, North American Plains Indians) War Dance: Usually 4 days of ceremonies before departure for battle. Ceremonies such as this induce a state of self hypnosis. Chromolithograph 1888

Male hypnotist putting young woman into an hypnotic trance. Wood engraving, 1891

Exhibition of hypnosis given by Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley at the Hotel Metropole, London, under the auspices of members of the medical profession

Caricature of Mesmer, showing him as an ass, hypnotising a subject with a finger

Trilby the tone-deaf ja who couldn t tell a C from an F giving a concert under Svengalis hypnotic influence. Illustration by George Du Maurier for his novel Trilby, London, 1894

Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893) giving a clinical lecture at the Salpetriere. Engraving after painting by Andre Brouillet

Mesmers tub at his consulting room in parish which opened soon after his treatise Memoire sur la decouverte de magnetism animal in 1779

George du Maurier carton on the revival of Mesmerism. From Punch, London, 4 December 1883

Hypnosis: Placing patient under the influence of hypnotism, top, and releasing him from that influence, bottom. From William Davey The Illustrated Practical Mesmerist, London, 1889. Lithograph

Hypnosis: Introvision (power of looking into a body) The most practical and valuable aspect of supersensuous perception, is known as introvision Patient, seated right, with introvisional subject

Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1903) French neurologist and pathologist, on right, demonstrating production of hypnosis using the sound from a large tuning fork

Mesmers Baquet
Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Viennese physician and hypnotist who claimed to be able to cure the sick by using animal magnetism", later known as mesmerism

Alternative medicine, conceptual artwork
Alternative medicine. Conceptual artwork of a therapist with a forehead strip reflector showing a mystical third eye symbol

Portrait of Mesmer
Portrait of Franz Anton Mesmer, who discovered animal magnetism or mesmerism Date: 1784

Hypnotism
A hypnotist hypnotising a patient

Woman under hypnosis via use of pendulum
A hypnotist hypnotises a patient with the aid of a pendulum

Tomczyk Demonstrates Pk
Stanislawa Tomczyk - Polish medium - demonstrates PK whilst under hypnosis to Ochorowicz in Poland by raising ojects, in this case one side of a set of scales

Hypnotised Hypnotising
Anna M. while being mesmerised by Townshend, demonstrates the best way to mesmerise someone, and effectively mesmerises her younger sister

Medallion of Mesmer
Friedrich Anton (Franz) Mesmer - depicted on a medallion. Mesmer was a German physicist who explored ideas on magnetic and gravitational influences on health

Hypnotised Subject - 2
A hypnotised mental patient at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, responds to the suggestion that she blow a kiss

Hypnotised Subject - 4
Six hysteria patients at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris, are simultaneously put into the hypnotic state by a sudden unexpected sound

Hypnotised Subject - 9
Exciting the cubital (forearm) nerve in a hypnotised subject at La Salpetriere hospital, Paris

Mother and sleeping child
A mother instructs her sleeping child with hypnotism to help it sleep

James Braid / Figuier
JAMES BRAID Scottish doctor, pioneer of hypnosis

Mesmer Glorified
Mesmer is crowned by a jester as he stands on a balloon inflated by his followers, including a cleric, calling down the power of the sun to cure his patients

Girl on Chairs
GIRL STRETCHED ON CHAIRS In the hypnotic state, general muscular contraction can be induced, enabling the body to do things it couldn t do in the normal state

Mesmer Homme Baquet
Five minutes of treatment by the baquet-homme suffice to produce wonderful effects on an ailing body thanks to the forces emitted by the eight bottles round the octagon

Mesmer and Bailly
Mesmer, whose work had been unfavourably reported by Bailly, salutes the latter as he is led to the guillotine

Deslon Censured
Deslon, one of Mesmers few supporters at Paris, is censured by the medical establishment who don t share his enthusiasm for the Viennese charlatan

Mesmer and Patient
The father of one of his patients, by no means convinced of the efficacy of his treatment, tries to rescue her. Swoonings and the vapours ensue

Mesmer and Academie
Mesmer hopes to interest the French Academie des Sciences in his work, but they ignore him and it

Mesmer and Pension
Mesmer refuses a state pension from the French government because it does not recognise the significance of his work

Mesmers Patient
Mesmers reputation suffers when mlle Paradis, a blind patient he failed to cure, turns up at the French court playing clavecin at Marie Ant- oinettes spiritual concert

Victoria Mesmerises
Queen Victoria, visiting Louis-Philippe of France, is suspected by the French of using mesmerism on him to obtain better terms for their commercial treaty

Demo at Munchen
German doctors observe a demonstration of hypnotism at Munchen

Gassner Cures
GASSNER cures his subject Emilie by exorcism at Ellwagen, Germany

Hypnotism - Durand
Dr J P Durand de Gros gives a demonstration of hypnosis to the scientific press, Paris

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