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Jean-Martin Charcot demonstrating hysteria in a hypnotised patient at the Salpêtrière. Etching by A. Lurat, 1888, after P.A.A. Brouillet, 1887.

A goat-headed man caresses a sleeping ewe-headed woman; representing the notion of animal magnetism and its application by physicians. Etching after M. Voltz (?), 1815.

Breathing into the ear to relieve deafness

There is something coming to Wonderland (Whitechapel Road), adjoining St. Mary's Station) ... on Saturday, July 18th, 1896 ... : The world renowned Man in a Trance asleep for 8 days & 7 nights. Mistaken for dead (Alfred Wootten, from the Royal Aquarium) unconscious the whole time ... / Wonderland.

Psychology applied to medicine ; introductory studies / by David W. Wells.

Hypnotismus und Suggestivtherapie : ein kurzes Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende nach der I. Auflage des Dr. Max Hirsch / Vollständig neu bearb. von Leo Hirschlaff.

Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine / by James Esdaile.

Treatment by hypnotism and suggestion, or, psycho-therapeutics / by C. Lloyd Tuckey.

Hypnotismus-Darwinismus und die Gottesidee : auf Grund religiöser und socialer Studien / dargestellt von Emil Uhthoff.

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Psychology applied to medicine ; introductory studies / by David W. Wells.

Hypnotismus und Suggestivtherapie : ein kurzes Lehrbuch für Ärzte und Studierende nach der I. Auflage des Dr. Max Hirsch / Vollständig neu bearb. von Leo Hirschlaff.

Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine / by James Esdaile.

Treatment by hypnotism and suggestion, or, psycho-therapeutics / by C. Lloyd Tuckey.

Hypnotismus-Darwinismus und die Gottesidee : auf Grund religiöser und socialer Studien / dargestellt von Emil Uhthoff.