Almanac: The forerunner of hypnotism

Sunday, March 5, 2017 - 10:01 in Biology & Nature

On March 5, 1815, Franz Anton Mesmer, a German doctor whose controversial methods to harness a force he called "animal magnetism" were the forerunner of modern hypnotism, died at age 80. Jane Pauley reports.

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