International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
Periodical:The Mesmeric Magazine
The Mesmeric Magazine: cover of an issue
Summary:
Summary by:
Pat Deveney
Title:
Mesmeric Magazine, or Journal of Animal Magnetism.
Other Titles:
Journal of Animal Magnetism
Published:
1842
Location:
Boston, MA.
Language:
English.
Editor(s):
R.H. Collyer.
Publisher(s):
Saxton and Pierce.
Description:

1/1, 1842. 32 pp., $2.00 a year.

The journal announced its purpose in the first issue: "Devoted entirely to Mesmerism or Animal Magnetism, in its various branches of Phreno-mesmerism, Patho-mesmerism, Physiogno-mesmerism, Psycho mesmerism, &c. The most minute and accurate details will be given of numerous highly interesting experiments in Clairvoyance, particularly in the Spiritual World, and in the Moon and Planets; and also of an immense number of mesmeric examinations of persons afflicted with various diseases. Letters from the most distinguished Mesmerists in this country and in Europe,will form a prominent feature of the Magazine." Crabtree 459.

Other Sources:NY Academy of Medicine; NY Historical Society; NY State Library; Buffalo and Erie County Public Library; Washington University; Brown University; and other locations in OCLC.
Issues:Mesmeric Magazine V1 N1 Jul 1842