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The Dramatic Cure

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Animal Magnetism - Is It a Fraud?

Anton mesmor had a theory to explain what was going on. He thought that there was a fluid called animal magnetism that permeated the cosmos, but that was particularly active in human nerves. The physician had influential followers like the french aristocrat, the marquis de lafayette. Lafayette toured the united states to spread word about animal magnetism's miraculous powers....

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