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From Pat Deveney's database:
Cronaca del Magnetismo Animale. The first Italian journal of mesmerism. The author of "L'Ipnotismo e gli Stati Affini," online at neurolinguistic.com, says the journal was published for eight years between
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The Cronaca del Magnetismo Animale was an Italian journal of animal magnetism published in 1853 and 1854, at the point when the tradition was under pressure across Europe from both medical hostility and the newly arrived spirit phenomena. Its concerns are the standard ones of the mid-century magnetic press: the magnetic fluid and its effluvia, the induction of somnambulism, the lucidity attributed to entranced subjects, and above all the therapeutic use of magnetism. It carries a marked interest in Karl von Reichenbach's odic force, the emanation his sensitives claimed to see in darkness, which was exercising Continental magnetisers in exactly these years. Its argumentative strategy is worth noting because it was shared across languages: the journal prizes testimony from physicians who are not magnetisers and did not previously believe, recruiting the sceptical expert as its best witness. The same move can be seen in The Zoist in England and the Journal du Magnétisme in France in the same decade. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism |
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