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From Pat Deveney's database:
A mixture of mesmerism and contemporary medicine. Contributions (on Pathetism) by
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| NYU; Academy of Medicine; NY Historical Society; University of Chicago; National Library of Medicine. | |
| Dissector V1 Index 1844 | |
| Dissector V1 N1 Jan 1844 | |
| Dissector V1 N2 Apr 1844 | |
| Dissector V1 N3 Jul 1844 | |
| Dissector V1 N4 Oct 1844 | |
| Dissector V2 Index 1845 | |
| Dissector V2 N1 Jan 1845 | |
| Dissector V2 N2 Apr 1845 | |
| Dissector V2 N3 Jul 1845 | |
| Dissector V2 N4 Oct 1845 | |
| Dissector V3 Index 1846 | |
| Dissector V3 N1 Jan 1846 | |
| Dissector V3 N2 Apr 1846 | |
| Dissector V3 N3 Jul 1846 | |
| Dissector V3 N4 Oct 1846 | |
| Dissector V4 N1 Jan 1847 | |
| Dissector V4 N2 Apr 1847 | |
| Dissector V4 N3 Jul 1847 | |
| Dissector V4 N4 Dec 1847 | |
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Read across 1844–1847, The Dissector is a medical-reform paper of the 1840s fringe, weaving mesmerism and phrenology into an attack on the orthodox medical establishment (the excerpted 'Fallacies of the Faculty'). Its content runs heavily to animal magnetism, magnetic passes and the odic force, joined to a strong phrenological interest — the two great mind-and-body heterodoxies of the decade marshalled together against the doctors. A vivid specimen of the mesmero-phrenological medical dissent of the 1840s. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Health Reform and Alternative Medicine | Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism | Phrenology and Physiognomy |
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