Dupotet J. Expériences publiques sûr le magnétisme animal : faites a l’Hotel-dieu de Paris, 1826.

Catalog Record: Dupotet J. Expériences publiques sûr le magnétisme animal : faites a l’Hotel-dieu de Paris, 1826.

Title: Expériences publiques sûr le magnétisme animal : faites a l’Hotel-dieu de Paris / par J. Dupotet.

AccessKey: ackp

Author: Du Potet de Sennevoy, Jules, baron, 1796-1881.

WLM Call Number: WO 391 D939 1826 RB

Accession NO.: 1975

Publisher: Paris : Chez l’auter : Bechet : Dentu, 1826.

Edition: troisieme ed.

Physical Descrip: iv, 170 p. ; 21 cm.

Language: fre

Subject: Animal Magnetism – methods.
Subject: Mesmerism – France.
Subject: Animal Magnetism – therapeutic use.
Subject: Animal Magnetism – France.

General Notes: Digitized in Batch 12 by Northern Micrographics, February 5, 2013.

General Notes: Du Potet invented the “Magic Mirror”, a device similar in principle to Mesmer’s “Baquet”, which he used to induce convulsion in the patient. It was used to create a somnambulistic state in the patient as a method of healing. He used such method to magnetize large numbers of patients to induce them into a trance at the Hotel Dieu and the Salpetriere in the 1820’s and describes these experiences in this work.

General Notes: “Troisieme edition, augmentee de nouveaux details sur la personne qui avait ete l’objet de ces experiences; et d’un precis des nouvelles observations sur le magnetisme faites dans plusieurs hopitaux de Paris; et suivie des dernieres deliberations de l’Academie de Medecine, sur la question du magnetisme” [Additional information from cover]