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From Pat Deveney's database:
Magnetiseur, Le. As its name indicates, the journal was primarily devoted to magnetism, but it was also one of the forums for the discussions over spiritualism and the postulated causes of its effects. Crabtree 807. Universitat
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| Magnetiseur V1-3 1859-1862 | |
| Magnetiseur V4-6 1863-1865 | |
| Magnetiseur V7-9 1866-1869 | |
| Magnetiseur V10-12 1870-1872 | |
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Le Magnetiseur was the Geneva journal of Charles Lafontaine, one of the most famous practicing animal magnetizers of the nineteenth century and a direct influence on the young James Braid. Its issues are given over to the theory and practice of magnetism - magnetic passes, induced somnambulism, clairvoyant lucidity, the disputed magnetic fluid - and to detailed case reports of cures, several vouched for by attending physicians. Appearing through the 1860s, it also registers the pressure of the new Spiritism, whose vocabulary of spirits and seances shadows its pages even as Lafontaine keeps the focus on magnetic phenomena as natural facts. It is a primary document of mesmerism at the moment the tradition was beginning to give way to hypnotism and to spirit mediumship. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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