Artificial somnambulism, hitherto called mesmerism, or animal magnetism
Artificial somnambulism, hitherto called mesmerism, or animal magnetism is an 1869 Philadelphia treatise by William Baker Fahnestock on hypnotism and mesmerism, held by the Boston Medical Library and digitised by the Medical Heritage Library. The first picture is a bookplate with a bearded portrait medallion inside an ornate oval frame, and the second is a diagram of a triangle inside a circle with angel names and Hebrew-style lettering, which a designer could borrow for occult or esoteric graphics.
