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From Pat Deveney's database:
Journal du Magnetisme. Baron Jules Denis Du Potet (or Dupotet) de Sennevoy (
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| ZDB: Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol.; BL; Harvard University | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V1-2 1845-1846 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V3 1846 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V4 1847 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V5 1847 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V6 1848 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V7 1848 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V8 1849 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V9 1850 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V10 1851 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V11 1852 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V12 1853 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V13 1854 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V14 1855 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V15 1856 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V16 1857 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V17 1858 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V18 1859 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V19 1860 | |
| Journal du Magnetisme V20 1861 | |
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The Journal du Magnétisme, published in Paris from 1845 to 1861, is the leading organ of French animal magnetism in its classical phase — the tradition descending directly from Franz Anton Mesmer through the nineteenth-century magnetisers. Its subject is the magnetic fluid and the operator who directs it: the technique of the passes, the induction of magnetic sleep, the somnambulist and her lucidity, clairvoyance at a distance, and above all the healing use of magnetism, including the surgical anaesthesia that was the movement's strongest claim on medical respectability. The journal argues that claim carefully, proposing protocols to distinguish genuine insensibility from a fraud's simulation, and it takes its place alongside homeopathy in the wider quarrel of the irregular medicines with the medical faculty. Its closing volumes are historically significant for another reason: Allan Kardec's Le Livre des Esprits appeared in 1857, and the journal's last years register the arrival of the Spiritism that would soon overtake magnetism as the chief French science of the invisible. 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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