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Preyer WT. Der Hypnotismus : Vorlesungen gehalten an der K. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1890.

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Catalog Record: Preyer WT. Der Hypnotismus : Vorlesungen gehalten an der K. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1890.

Title: Der Hypnotismus : Vorlesungen gehalten an der K. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin / von W. Preyer.

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Author: Preyer, William T., 1841-1897.

WLM Call Number: WO 390 P929 1890 RB

Accession NO.: RB1029

Publisher: Wien : Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1890.

Physical Description: vi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Language: ger

Provenance: Free endpaper with bookstamp of Dr. K. Herman Bouman of Amsterdam ; Title page with stamp of Psychiatrische-Neurologische Klinik Universiteit Gem. Amsterdam.

Subject: Animal Magnetism – history.
Subject: Somnambulism – history.
Subject: Hypnosis.

Abstract: Preyer writes of the history and nature of hypnosis. The history, starts with Mesmer, and includes an appreciative description of Braid. Preyer also includes his German translation of a work by Braid on the difference between nervous sleep (hypnotism) and normal sleep (Crabtree).

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics July 21, 2011.