The Phreno-Magnet [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*The Phreno-Magnet*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Phreno-Magnet, and Mirror of Nature,The. A Record of Facts, Experiments and Discoveries in Phrenology, Magnetism &c. 1843—1843 Monthly London, England. Language: English. Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.. Editor: Spenser Timothy Finsbury Hall. 1/1-11, February 1843. This gave a more popular version of mesmerism than its contemporary The Zoist. Regular contributions by Laroy Sunderland, on whom see the note under The Magnet. Crabtree 483.
Other Sources:	LOC.
Issues::	Phreno-magnet V1 Index
	Phreno-magnet V1 N1 February 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N2 March 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N3 April 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N4 May 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N5 June 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N6 July 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N7 August 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N8 September 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N9 October 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N10 November 1843
	Phreno-magnet V1 N11 December 1843
Claude-Generated Themes:	Read across 1843, The Phreno-Magnet is the leading organ of PHRENO-MESMERISM — the short-lived but vivid crossover discipline in which a mesmeric operator applies his “animal magnetic” influence to specific phrenological organs, exciting them by touch. Here two fringe sciences fuse: phrenology's map of the cerebral faculties supplies the targets, and mesmerism supplies the force. The paper is dominated by this hybrid more than by phrenology's base doctrine — a striking record of the 1840s moment when the science of the brain's organs and the science of the invisible magnetic fluid briefly became one practice, a fusion that fed directly into the emerging Spiritualist world. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism \| Phrenology and Physiognomy