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Periodical: The St. Louis Magnet

Summary: From Pat Deveney's journal database:

St. Louis Magnet.
Designed to Illustrate the Philosophy of Human Nature.
1845-1849 Monthly
St. Louis, MO. Language: English.
Publisher: T.W. Ustick, printer. Editor: T.J. M'Nair.
1/1, May 1, 1845-1849. 24 pp. $1.00 a copy, or six copies for $5.00.

Magnetism and hypnotism. Important early midwestern occult periodical, notable for early coverage of (Andrew) Jackson Davis, the marvelous illiterate boy clairvoyant (at the time), as well as for coverage of early Joseph Rodes Buchanan doings, and early (anonymous) E. A. Hitchcock material. St. Louis is an important US occult center in the 19th century, and this is one of the earliest periodicals issued from St. Louis.

Other Sources:
Issues:St Louis Magnet V1 Index
St Louis Magnet V1 N01 May 1845
St Louis Magnet V1 N02 June 1845
St Louis Magnet V1 N03 July 1845
St Louis Magnet V1 N04 August 1845
St Louis Magnet V1 N05 September 1845
St Louis Magnet V1 N06 October 1845
St Louis Magnet V1 N07 November 1845
St Louis Magnet V1 N08 December 1845
St Louis Magnet V1 N09 January 1846
St Louis Magnet V1 N10 February 1846
St Louis Magnet V1 N11 March 1846
St Louis Magnet V1 N12 April 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 Index
St Louis Magnet V2 N01 May 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 N02 June 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 N03 July 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 N04 August 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 N05 September 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 N06 October 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 N07 November 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 N08 December 1846
St Louis Magnet V2 N09 January 1847
St Louis Magnet V2 N10 February 1847
St Louis Magnet V2 N11 March 1847
St Louis Magnet V2 N12 April 1847
Claude-Generated Themes:   The St. Louis Magnet is an antebellum American organ of animal magnetism and phreno-magnetism, the mid-century synthesis that read the mind through both the mesmeric 'fluid' and the phrenological map of cerebral organs. Its pages turn on mesmerism, somnambulism, clairvoyance, the magnetic 'passes,' and Reichenbach's odic force, set beside phrenology in the lineage of Gall, Spurzheim, and J. R. Buchanan — the physician who would coin 'psychometry.' A hydropathic and electrical healing strand accompanies the theory, applying the magnetic fluid to cure. It belongs to the pre-spiritualist world of the 1840s-50s from which both American spiritualism and later mind-cure would grow, and its faint 'success/demonstration' vocabulary should not be mistaken for the New Thought it predates.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hypnotism and Suggestion